The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Montserrat
A free alternative to Avenir.
About Montserrat
- Designer
- Julieta Ulanovsky
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Montserrat is also a free alternative to…
- Avenir → Geometric sans inspired by Buenos Aires neighbourhood signage. Higher x-height and tighter construction than Avenir — preferred when you need geometric impact at headline sizes rather than humanist softness in body text.
- Gotham → Repeatedly cited as the classic Gotham stand-in. Geometric proportions, comparable counters, nine weights with italics — the most popular Gotham alternative on Google Fonts for good reason.
- Proxima Nova → The most consistently cited free Proxima Nova alternative. Geometric proportions with open forms and friendly character — the visual likeness is close enough that designers routinely swap one for the other on web projects.
Display + body that work together
Quiet type that does the work
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Modern · Editorial Montserrat + Crimson Pro
Headlines, written under pressure
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Editorial · Modern DM Serif Display + Montserrat