William Montrose

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William Montrose German / American type designer who graduated from the MATD program of the University of Reading in 2013. His graduation typeface family is called Natan (2013), named after the Russian mathematician Sergey Natanovich Bernstein. Natan covers Latin and Hebrew in styles that range from regular to chunky. William adjusted both scripts back and forth in function of each other in a process he calls script juggling. He writes: Natan is a punch cutting fantasy turned into Bézier curves. A tribute to craftsmanship sans nostalgia. Chunky elegant curves deriving from a broad scuffed nib, worked into metal with gravers and files. Angular calligraphic strokes, cast in typographic solutions for modern day text setting. In 2019, at Rosetta Type, together with Slava Jevcinova and David Brezina, he released the variable font Adapter (with three axes, for latin, Greek and Cyrillic). At Kilotype, he released Old School Grotesk (2019). In 2021, he added an all-new and extended Oldschool Grotesk 2.0---a 40-font type system in Compressed, Condensed, Compact, and Classic widths, and a weight range from Hair to Heavy. Available individually or in a single variable font file. Engineered by Selma Losch and published at Kilotype.	EXTERNAL LINKS William Montrose MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Hebrew font links ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿