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Neue Montreal

Rooted in Montreal’s design heritage, from Expo 67 to today’s global creative landscape.

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Hairline 100
Extralight 150
Thin 200
Light 300
Book 375
Regular 400
Medium 500
Semibold 600
Bold 700
Extrabold 800
Black 900
Hairline Italic 100
Extralight Italic 150
Thin Italic 200
Light Italic 300
Book Italic 375
Italic 400
Medium Italic 500
Semibold Italic 600
Bold Italic 700
Extrabold Italic 800
Black Italic 900
Text Thin 200
Text Light 300
Text Book 375
Text Regular 400
Text Medium 500
Text Semibold 600
Text Bold 700
Text Thin Ital 200
Text Light Ital 300
Text Book Ital 375
Text Ital 400
Text Medium Ital 500
Text Semibold Ital 600
Text Bold Ital 700

Neue Montreal

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Leading

Spacing

A timeless grotesque.

Neue Montreal

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Leading

Spacing

Rooted in the city's design legacy, from Expo 67 to its contemporary scene.

Neue Montreal

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PP Neue Montreal is a contemporary grotesque typeface built over time, not just designed once. First released in 2018, it has evolved into a modern classic, trusted across branding, editorial, and digital design for its rare balance of neutrality and character. Inspired by the visual culture of Montreal, from Expo 67 to today’s global design landscape, Neue Montreal was never meant to sit still. It was built to adapt. To move. To become the default choice without ever feeling generic. At its core, Neue Montreal lives in that tight space between function and expression.

Neue Montreal

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Neue Montreal is a contemporary grotesque sans serif designed for clarity, versatility, and long-term use across branding, editorial, and digital design. Developed over more than eight years, it has evolved into a complete typographic system—refined through real-world applications and trusted by designers worldwide. Rooted in Montreal’s design heritage—from Expo 67 to today’s global creative landscape—Neue Montreal draws from modernist principles while adapting them for contemporary needs. The result is a typeface that feels both familiar and distinct: neutral enough to function as a reliable workhorse, yet expressive enough to bring subtle character to any layout. At its core, Neue Montreal is built for performance. Its structure is clean and rational, with carefully balanced proportions, consistent spacing, and a rhythm that holds across a wide range of sizes. From user interfaces and websites to editorial layouts and brand identities, it delivers legibility without sacrificing personality. This makes it an ideal choice for designers looking for a modern sans serif font that works seamlessly across print and screen. The family features a comprehensive weight range, from delicate Hairline styles to dense, impactful Black weights, each paired with matching italics. This extended system allows for precise typographic hierarchy, giving designers the flexibility to move effortlessly between subtle text applications and bold display use. Whether used for minimal branding, complex design systems, or large-scale campaigns, Neue Montreal adapts without friction. To further enhance its usability, Neue Montreal includes a dedicated Text version optimized for long-form reading and small sizes. This variant introduces wider apertures, more generous spacing, and subtle optical adjustments that improve readability in dense paragraphs and digital environments. It ensures consistent performance in everything from editorial articles to mobile interfaces. Beyond its design, Neue Montreal is built for global communication. The typeface supports an extensive range of languages, including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, and Arabic, covering over 500 languages and billions of speakers worldwide. This makes it a powerful tool for international brands, multilingual platforms, and designers working across diverse markets. Over time, Neue Montreal has become more than just a font—it’s a dependable foundation. Its ongoing development reflects a commitment to refinement, precision, and usability, shaped by continuous feedback and real-world use. It’s the kind of typeface that integrates effortlessly into a project, holds everything together, and stays relevant long after trends move on. For designers searching for a modern grotesque font that combines functionality, flexibility, and quiet distinction, Neue Montreal stands as a proven, future-ready choice.

Neue Montreal is variable

Neue Montreal

Glyphs View

Alternate a

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Round dots

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Standard ligatures

fi ff ffi fl ffl

Case-Sensitive Forms

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Discrete Ligatures

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Tabular Numbers

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The only Grotesk you’ll ever need.

Neue Montreal is a versatile, timeless grotesque, rooted in the city's design legacy—from Expo 67 to its contemporary scene. It blends the quiet confidence of a reliable workhorse with the distinct character of a display face.

Continuously developed since its initial release, the typeface has seen its range steadily expand. It now features a full weight axis, from Hairline to Black, and supports Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Arabic scripts, covering 506 languages and 3.4 billion speakers.

For clear legibility at small sizes, a dedicated Text Size version is now also available.

Neue Montreal is already in use across identity, editorial, and digital work worldwide.

What’s new in Version 3.00

Expanded Weight Range & Refined Functionality

PP Neue Montreal 3 has received a significant update. We've grown the family from the previous Thin to Bold selection into a full, comprehensive weight range, from the delicate Hairline all the way to the heavy Black weight. All new weights include corresponding italic styles. In parallel with this expansion, we took the opportunity to review the entire design. We applied careful micro-adjustments across the character set to fine-tune the forms and improve the overall functionality and performance of the font across various environments and sizes.

Introducing PP Neue Montreal Text

Following the character set expansion, we created a dedicated Text size version of the typeface, specifically engineered for optimal long-form reading and smaller sizes. This new version ranges from Light to Bold and features functional adjustments to boost legibility.

Larger Apertures: Characters such as C, G, S, c, s, and a have larger openings, directly increasing the legibility of the typeface.
Weight Corrections: Complex shapes received fine-tuned weight corrections to ensure clarity even at very small sizes.
Spacing Adjustment: We applied a more generous spacing adjustment to further increase overall legibility in text blocks.

Designers

Collaborator

Demande Spéciale

Styles

36 Styles

36 Styles with 1350 Glyphs each
Including Italics

Version

3.00

Latest update: April 2026

Available formats

OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Language Support

Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Greek, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lituanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese ... (and more)