The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Neue Montreal vs Feijoa
A contemporary grotesque sans against an old-style book serif, so this is a pairing question more than a swap. Neue Montreal is Mathieu Desjardins' 2018 Pangram Pangram grotesque, inspired by Montreal's design heritage and Expo 67, while Feijoa is Kris Sowersby's 2007 debut for Klim Type Foundry, a Garalde/Oldstyle serif drawn for long reading.
Neue Montreal is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Switzer, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Neue Montreal → Feijoa is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Alegreya, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Feijoa →
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- Neue Montreal is a rational, evenly proportioned grotesque sans with upright and italic weights plus Cyrillic, built for branding, editorial and interface work.
- Feijoa is a serif built on Sowersby's principle that 'a straight line is a dead line', giving it warm, curved letterforms rather than sharp points and angles.
- Feijoa ships as a small, purpose-built family: Medium, Medium Italic and Bold as text weights for book typography, plus a Display cut meant for 16pt and larger.
- Feijoa carries several ligatures inspired by Zuzana Licko's Mrs Eaves, a bookish flourish Neue Montreal's neutral grotesque has no equivalent for.
- Both are commercial: Pangram Pangram offers Neue Montreal Regular as a free trial for personal, non-commercial use with paid licenses for everything else, while Feijoa is paid-only from Klim, so licensing cost applies to either choice.
Neue Montreal
Reach for Neue Montreal when you want a clean, contemporary grotesque for brand identities, headlines and UI, especially if you want to prototype with the free personal-use Regular first.
Feijoa
Reach for Feijoa for books, essays and long-form editorial where a warm old-style serif with proper text weights will carry pages of reading.