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Welcome to the second in our Type Faces series. Get to know Monotype’s longest-tenured employee, Pat Lightizer, Senior Type Partner Operations Manager at Monotype, and learn all about her enduring love of typography, favorite 1950s country music stars, and her fearlessness in the face of heights and power tools.

Picsart, the world’s leading platform for creators, announced an expanded partnership with Monotype. This collaboration brings 2000 handpicked fonts to Picsart’s community of over 150 million monthly active users, enabling creators to enhance their content with a diverse range of high-quality typefaces.

Monotype Imaging Inc. is opening up a “Universe of Type” for Adobe MAX 2024 attendees and inviting them to embark on a voyage of seamless creative discovery. At the show, the Monotype booth will be showcasing some of the brightest typefaces in the Monotype library’s firmament of more than 150,000 premium fonts. On hand to aid attendees’ discovery will be Monotype’s new AI-enabled font pairing tool — and an offer for a “typographic palm reading” with Monotype’s type experts. 

Fonts are your brand’s visual voice, and if its voice doesn’t cut through the chatter, it’s probably just contributing to it. Learn more with Charles Nix’s article at the Fast Company Executive Board.

Tune in to hear Terrance Weinzierl, Creative Type Director at Monotype, on BBC Tech Life podcast as he dives into the fascinating history and design of the iconic Comic Sans font, celebrating its 30th anniversary. 

Designers are creative by nature. However, the practical side of a creative education can’t be pushed aside. Learn more about how to think about your design career comprehensively with Charles Nix’s article at the Fast Company Executive Board.

Typography is a crucial component of every brand, including in the automotive sector. It doesn’t just crop up in print and digital advertisements, but also in the cars themselves, from text incorporated into the physical features of the vehicle to the screens inside. Learn more from Terrance Weinzierl, Creative Type Director in the Monotype Studio at HORIZONT.

Welcome to our Type Faces series, where we’ll be sharing the stories of some of the fabulous people behind the type here at Monotype. For our first interview, get to know Jay Loo, Director of Pre-Sales & Market Research at Monotype — and also lover of hip hop, graffiti enthusiast, and a lifelong New Yorker. 

Fonts are having a real impact on our cultural moments — across social media, at live performances, and on television. From reels and comedy sketches to commercials and TED talks, fonts are claiming their rightful place as a major influence on our digital age. Read about four times fonts were in the spotlight in 2024. 

Monotype celebrates the next generation of type designers through its sponsorship of the Type Directors Club Adé Hogue and Beatrice Warde Scholarships awarded to design students Patrick Guanaz and Gabriela Parra Sánchez.