The font weight feels light. I wish the strokes had more width to them. For the identical height. Or possibly wider spacing between glyths.
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Loving the amount of typography experts in the community 
change is good, you’ll live
Really? I had assumed the change of font was somehow terminal?
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Yep that’s it, imma go find a bank with times new roman now
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Looks cheap.
Like the trade screen font in late '90 PC RPGs.
You don’t have to be an expert to know if you like something or not, or if it helps or hinders your reading speed 
Plus, many designers in many app-based projects and organisations are no ‘experts’ either; design is an opinion-based matter, you can claim you conform to all modern standards or whatever all you want, but unless you have actually run scientific trials to show that design A is more usable than design B in some measurable way, it’s all opinion-based, as you can see by the amount of people liking/disliking any design in any app in online fora around the world.
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I like it, mainly from an accessibility point of view, I’m dyslexic, so very alert to fonts and how readable they are, and this san serif is right in my wheelhouse, letter with a bit more curve to them are easier for me to read, along with the spacing. It’s very Verdana in it’s look, which again is a preferred font for me and find it easier than Helvetica.
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The tail on the l and the descender on the ‘y’ are the big give aways. The ‘a’ also has a little flick to its tail.
A lot of the characters are strikingly similar to San Francisco.
(Red: monzo sans - blue: san francisco)
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Absolutely not.
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I feel like not calling it Sans Francisco was a missed opportunity
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In lower case there is a noticeable difference from SF Pro for me, spacing in Monzo Sans is bigger on all letters, and capital is similar but the curves are rounder on Monzo Sans
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Yeah I did space out SF Pro a bit for the comparison.
If I keep SF Pro at its default tracking it looks super cramped compared to Monzo Sans
Is Monzo Sans proprietary? Had it been uploaded onto some database?
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Oh I remorselessly ripped the webfont from the monzo website and converted it to a truetype font for doing my own sick experiments.
Totally normal thing for a customer to spend time doing.
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Like you say it’s subjective. However I’m pretty sure that they are experts - it’s called a profession let’s not belittle it shall we. Monzo sans is a bespoke type created for Monzo not downloaded off dafont with 0 consideration. It’s got character, something which is not easy to create.
There is no belittling involved. It just happens to be an area of subjective judgement.
There are many artists in the world, and when you think that artist A is absolute rubbish but I think the same artist is amazing, that’s (generally) considered ok as a difference of taste. I’m sure we both can find some ‘expert artists’ that we dislike. Same with UI design. Usability can be measured (how often it actually is measured is a different story), beauty cannot (although the Greeks had something to say about that with their golden section).
Sure, but that doesn’t automatically make it amazing. Bespoke creations can be as horrible as off-the-shelf choices (not saying the Monzo font is, just saying the argument that it was bespoke therefore it is good isn’t a very good one).
Absolutely, it’s similar to other fonts but different enough; I think soon it may become fairly easy to differentiate Monzo print from others because of it.
I’m not saying it’s absolutely amazing, just disagreeing with your statement that they aren’t experts.
Really interesting to hear this. We’ve had mixed feedback on the font, with some people saying it’s harder to read from an accessibility perspective. Some feedback has said the letter spacing feels closer, when in fact when we looked at them side-by-side the new font has more letter spacing.
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I think after a few days now the letters I don’t mind but I genuinely would like to see a change to the numbers. They look too skinny to me and at the top of my account and scrolling through my pots I feel like the number in the top center is not bold enough and my small amounts in them feel even smaller seeing it presented so skinny 
. If there was going to be any change then numbers over letters please!
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That’s really interesting. To me, the spacing is much further apart (I think it’s why I don’t love it actually) and I can’t envisage anyone thinking it’s closer together than the former font!