TL;DR
Mont was released in 2018 as a geometric sans-serif built from nothing but a circle, a square, and a triangle. As time went on, it became one of Fontfabric’s bestsellers. Modeled after Code Pro, but sharper, bolder, and built for a market hungry for modern geometric type, it found its way into branding, UI, editorial, and more. In 2025, it got the upgrade it deserved: refined vertical metrics, Variable Fonts, and sharper on-screen rendering. Almost a decade in, Mont hasn’t dated a day. Here’s how founder and designer Svet Simov remembers building a classic.
Ironically, one of the most certain things in life is actually unpredictability. An idea takes shape, a thought takes roots, you create something, envision it living a life of its own, but often it outruns your wildest dreams. For good.
Mont, a modern sans-serif typeface born from the pursuit of geometric clarity and minimal elegance, was released in 2018. Since then, it went on to become a bestseller.
Almost a decade ago when the team first started working on Mont, no one realised they were creating a classic. Here’s how Svet Simov, our founder and CEO, and the designer behind Mont, recalls the story.
Creating Mont: from Inspiration to Iteration
“At the time, the market had real gaps and real demand for modern, geometric sans serifs. Mont was a frontrunner – we got in right under the wire.”, Svet Simov, Founder & CEO.
A market gap was the spark that got the gears turning. When an opportunity presents itself, you just have to grab it and that was what Svet did. He was both a director and designer on the project, working with Mirela Belova for shaping the characters.
Modeled after Code Pro, a 2011 release that’s elegant and straight to the point, and Code Next, Mont was constructed from the basics – circle, square, and triangle. At the beginning of 2018, Mont was officially released to make up for the lack of contemporary typography across editorial, UI, and branding.
The rest is history. Soon after its release, it climbed to bestseller status across platforms, becoming one of those fonts designers kept coming back to, project after project, In 2018, Mont was crowned the best-selling release on MyFonts, and year after year since, it’s remained one of the top 3 best-selling fonts on our website.
But popular as it was, Mont still had room to grow. That’s why in the first half of 2025, the team rolled up their sleeves and gave it an update. Type Director Vika Usmanova and Art Director Stefan Yatanski joined the project, doing what they do best – updating the glyphs and shaping the visual direction and market positioning that turned a well-timed idea into a font people actually reached for.
With refined vertical metrics for better UI alignment, Variable Fonts for flexible design integration, and improved screen rasterization (hinting), Mont brings designers all over the world ultimate typographic flexibility.
That’s how it all started. Now, let’s take a closer look at Mont’s details.
The Character(s) of Mont
Yes, Mont is a clean, versatile typeface, but as the saying goes, the truth lies in the details.
The typeface blends minimalism with sharp personality. Take your time and notice the pointed M and the pointed triangle bracket of the t, the way they are contrasted by soft, rounded forms in letters like a, e, and o. Some of them are actually among Svet’s favorite characters from the typeface.
The capital M, the lowercase t, all the interesting triangular and oval forms, the numerals, the punctuation, and the ampersand, I love that one. – Svet Simov, Founder & CEO
In Mont, among the geometric shapes, you’ll also see horizontal terminals and minimal stroke contrast. Curious for more?
Distinctive details are one thing, but a working typeface needs range too. Here’s where Mont proves it can do more than look good.
Weights, Styles, and Variable Flexibility
Mont adapts beautifully to any environment. It’s crisp in print, sharp on screen, and effortlessly stylish in UI. With 22 styles ranging from Hairline to Black Italic, it allows you to explore tone and hierarchy with ease.
Mont includes 2 Variable fonts with one distinct axis of variation: weight. It comes with a complete set of OpenType features, such as alternates, stylistic sets, localized forms, ligatures, case-sensitive forms, and more. Add Extended Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek support, and there’s nothing Mont can’t do.
All these specifications explain what Mont can do. For the why behind the design, there’s no better source than the person who built it.
Behind the Bestseller: an Interview with Svet Simov
Svet, our founder and CEO, is a visionary designer known for creating bestsellers that have left a mark on the design world. It’s no secret he loves working on geometric sans serif typefaces because of the balance of simplicity, structure, and versatility that the style offers, and it was a pleasure listening to him take a walk down memory lane and recall what it felt like to be working on Mont.
What were some of the biggest challenges you faced during the font creation process?
Svet: As with many other typefaces, the challenge was keeping it readable while still different and distinctive enough to stand out in style and detail. In order to do so, we crafted interesting, varied letterforms such as the pointed, now iconic t, a tall x-height, strong geometry, narrow and beautiful geometric shapes. All of these details make Mont a mix of beautiful geometric forms that are also readable.
Did other fonts inspire you in the design process of Mont?
S: Mont is actually an improved version of Code Pro and the later release Code Next, both earlier geometric sans serifs designed by me. So yes, it was inspired by and built on top of Code Pro. As the time went by, it turned into a beautiful bestseller, and with the update we expanded the initial version – not in design, but in features and language support.
If we were back in time and you were just starting to craft Mont, would you do anything differently?
S: I wouldn’t change anything. For me, Mont is one of the most perfect typefaces we’ve made in terms of design. What we needed was for Mont to start speaking more languages and travel across borders.
When you first sketched Mont, how did you envision it being used by designers in the creative industry? In the years passed, have you seen it on a product/project where you never thought it would be?
S: In reality it is hard to predict where a font will end up. Mont is versatile and unmistakably modern, a reliable choice for any brand that wants to feel current, not dated. I can see Mont used in beauty brands, packaging, anything fashion-related, or as a typeface for corporations and companies – it’s stylish, refined, and functional, but never pretentious. It’s actually the main typeface on our own website – we’ve noticed it holds up well for web usage, both as text and a display font. That further proved Mont can be a brand font and if you need a complementary text face, you could pair it with Mont Blanc, its little brother.
If Mont were a person, what qualities would they possess?
S: I picture Mont as a person wearing cool sneakers, a casual but stylish blazer, with great hair, and maybe a pair of round glasses – someone fancy, business-minded, resourceful, and bold, communicative and open to the world and what it has to offer.
To be fair, that sounds like someone we would like to meet.
Mont in Use
Designed with the idea to be versatile enough, Mont can be used in branding and visual identity, UI/UX and app design, editorial and publishing, advertising and marketing, packaging, and more. Ever since its launch, Mont has found a comfortable place among various products in different industries.
Mont graces the packaging of Matrix, a salon hair care brand, the Union of the Bulgarian Artists website, аs well as the ones for 88agency and Axel Springer. Our website? Also Mont.
Almost a decade after its release, Mont doesn’t read as dated. It was built lean, on three shapes and a clear idea, which is why it had room to grow instead of age. The 2025 update just gave a design that already worked the tools to keep working on a larger scale.
Mont met its moment back in 2018 and it’s been meeting every moment since.
