Evaluate Montserrat as a better alternative to Proxima Nova

[wting]

http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat

[JensRantil]

Any special resons why you think it would be better? Readability? Spacing?

[wting]

Proxima Nova -- while a great font -- is not free. Most visitors will not have it installed, and most people using this theme will not have paid for the font license.

As a result, I'm sure most visitors view the theme with Open Sans which is a close alternative but certain things don't line up / are slightly off.

I feel that using and designing for Montserrat as the primary font will result in a better UX overall.

[danwein]

monserrat is not even close to proxima nova. yeah it has similar looking glyphs, but there is much more than that that makes proxima nova a great font.

[linus-amg]

actually its very close, and the best alternative available