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Terrance Weinzierl, creative director at Monotype, discusses how AI can transform the daily workflow of designers by providing fresh, informed inspiration in font pairings, and how it aids the speed and quality of font combinations while inspiring designers to be more creative.

Thilo von Debschitz this year’s Red Dot Juror shines a spotlight on some of Monotype’s winning typefaces and what makes them standout. 

Creatives can now access subscriptions to Monotype Fonts directly online, while Shopify merchants can deploy thousands of unique fonts across the commerce experience.

Paris, 3 April 2023- Monotype, one of the world’s leading font and technology specialists, today released an in-depth study on the power of different fonts to convey an emotional response. The research was conducted in the UK and in France, and it found that the French have more emotional responses when viewing typography than their British counterparts. The findings highlight both the power of typography to convey different “feelings” – and significant national differences in emotional response to type.

Monotype is sponsoring scholarships for both the Adé Hogue Scholarship and the Beatrice Warde Scholarship, which are open and calling for applications through The Type Directors Club.

The entry for these scholarships have been extended to March 31, 2023.

Today Monotype® announced its acquisition of five premium typeface families from the Milieu Grotesque catalogue and Paulo Goode’s current type catalogue.

Today Monotype, one of the world’s leading font and technology specialists, and Canva, a design platform with more than 110 million monthly users, announced a partnership to make over 1,100 curated fonts available to Canva’s global design community.

Monotype has developed an AI-powered tool called the “Font Discovery” tool that helps designers find the perfect font pairing faster. The tool utilizes Monotype’s vast library of fonts and analyzes them using AI algorithms to determine which fonts work best together. According to Terrance Weinzierl, Creative Type Director at Monotype - “Using the latest advances in AI allows designers to supercharge their abilities and open up a new kind of data-informed serendipitous discovery.” 

Charles Nix highlights the growing importance of typography in our daily lives, and the impact that font choice can have on accessibility and legibility, particularly when it comes to optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

The National Portrait Gallery in London has revealed its new identity,  debuting a new monogram, logotype, typeface and sleek color palette, inspired by paint and materials in the building and archive, as well as the gallery’s own portrait collection.