A year later, she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign promising a typeface with “the spirit of Buenos Aires,” and the result is a perceptive homage to the historic Montserrat neighborhood where she lives and works today.
Montserrat was first designed by Julieta Ulanovsky in 2010 while she was a student in the Type Design master’s program at the University of Buenos Aires (known as CDT).
Montserrat: Finding Cyrillic forms in the Modernist lettering of Buenos AiresĪmong the Cyrillic typefaces in the recent Google Fonts expansion, a notable highlight is Montserrat, a playful, geometric sans-serif that’s become increasingly popular among web designers in recent years.
