Typecase

Open licence · Sans serif

Montserrat

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Montserrat webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Montserrat.

Montserratthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

normal x-heightwidemoderate contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Montserrat, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Montserrat, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Sora webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sora.

Soraslightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The M PLUS U webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not M PLUS U.

M PLUS Uslightly smaller x-height · slightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Proza Libre webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Proza Libre.

Proza Libreslightly narrower bowls · slightly smaller x-height

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

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Montserrat as a free alternative to

Montserrat is suggested on 16 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.