Montserrat

Sans Serif

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Montserrat is a free, open-source sans-serif typeface by Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly, on Google Fonts since 2011. It ships in 18 styles across 9 weights, including italics, and covers 5 writing systems, including Cyrillic, Cyrillic Ext, Latin. It currently ranks #2 in Google Fonts' popularity data. Everything below is live: test it at real sizes, adjust weight and spacing, preview it in your own colors with WCAG contrast checks, and copy ready-to-use embed code.

Specimens

Regular 400 at 13px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Regular 400 at 16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Regular 400 at 24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Regular 400 at 32px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Bold 700 at 24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog — 0123456789 & @#%

Try it in your colors

Type your own text, set your text and background colors, and check the pairing passes WCAG before it ships. Edits stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent anywhere.

Text Background

Size Weight Italic Spacing Line height

A heading in Montserrat

Body text set in Montserrat. Click anywhere in this preview and type your own words — the colors, the contrast score, and the typeface all update live.

Body text: Large text: Full contrast report →

Use it on your site

HTML <head>

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS

font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;

CSS @import (alternative to the <link> tag)

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@400;700&display=swap');

Tailwind CSS v4

@theme {
  --font-montserrat: "Montserrat", sans-serif;
}
/* then use: class="font-montserrat" */

About

Category: Sans Serif
Weights: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 + italics
Styles: 100, 100 Italic, 200, 200 Italic, 300, 300 Italic, 400, 400 Italic, 500, 500 Italic, 600, 600 Italic, 700, 700 Italic, 800, 800 Italic, 900, 900 Italic
Designed by: Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly
On Google Fonts since: 2011
Popularity: #2 in Google Fonts’ popularity ranking
Languages: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Ext, Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
Data source: Google Fonts metadata, July 2026 snapshot

License

Open source and free for personal and commercial use. Most Google Fonts ship under the SIL Open Font License — the authoritative license text for Montserrat is on its official page. To self-host instead of using Google’s CDN, download the family there (TTF files; the CDN serves optimized WOFF2) — the license is the same either way.

Get it on Google Fonts →

Suggested pairings

Hand-picked companions — classic combinations designers actually use, not an algorithm’s guess. Each card sets a heading in Montserrat over body text in the companion face.

Montserrat Body text set in Merriweather — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 0123456789. Merriweather → Montserrat Body text set in Lora — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 0123456789. Lora → Montserrat Body text set in Cormorant Garamond — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 0123456789. Cormorant Garamond → Montserrat Body text set in Libre Baskerville — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 0123456789. Libre Baskerville →

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