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<p>
  The old posters and signs in the traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires
  called Montserrat inspired me to design a typeface that rescues the beauty of
  urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century. The goal is to
  rescue what is in Montserrat and set it free, under a free, libre and open
  source license, the SIL Open Font License.
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<p>
  As urban development changes this place, it will never return to its original
  form and loses forever the designs that are so special and unique. To draw the
  letters, I rely on examples of lettering in the urban space. Each selected
  example produces its own variants in length, width and height proportions,
  each adding to the Montserrat family. The old typographies and canopies are
  irretrievable when they are replaced.
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<p>
  There are other revivals, but those do not stay close to the originals. The
  letters that inspired this project have work, dedication, care, color,
  contrast, light and life, day and night! These are the types that make the
  city look so beautiful.
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<p>
  This is the Regular family, and it has two sister families so far,
  <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat+Alternates"
    >Alternates</a
  >
  and
  <a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat+Underline"
    >Underline</a
  >
  families. Many of the letterforms are special in the Alternates family, while
  .
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