Montserrat
Montserrat is a sans serif font in 9 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 11% wider than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 5 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Montserrat
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Montserrat from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Montserrat itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 573.8 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 716 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 262 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | proportional (digit widths differ) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 25% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Sans serif |
Weights and styles
- Montserrat Thin Italic
- Montserrat Thin
- Montserrat ExtraLight Italic
- Montserrat ExtraLight
- Montserrat Light Italic
- Montserrat Light
- Montserrat Italic
- Montserrat Regular
- Montserrat Medium Italic
- Montserrat Medium
- Montserrat SemiBold Italic
- Montserrat SemiBold
- Montserrat Bold Italic
- Montserrat Bold
- Montserrat ExtraBold Italic
- Montserrat ExtraBold
- Montserrat Black Italic
- Montserrat Black
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Montserrat
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Montserrat Underline Regularidentical letter widths (0.3 units)
- Montserrat Alternates Regularvery close widths (13.5 units)
- Alexandria Regularsimilar widths (27.2 units)
- Argentum Sans Regularsimilar widths (29.3 units)
- Amiko Regularloosely similar widths (37.6 units)
- Encode Sans Expanded Regularloosely similar widths (37.9 units)
- Gotu Regularloosely similar widths (38.1 units)
- Nebula Sans Regularloosely similar widths (39.9 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Montserrat?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Montserrat itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Montserrat free to use?
Montserrat is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Montserrat?
By measured letter widths, Montserrat Underline is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 0.3 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Montserrat support?
It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.
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