Monotype Imaging Inc. has announced its acquisition of Extensis, a leading provider of font management solutions. This acquisition will enhance value for customers by combining Monotype’s extensive font library of over 150,000 fonts with the best of both Monotype’s Monotype Fonts and Extensis Connect font management software offerings to create an all-in-one inventory and font software solution.
We are currently experiencing a major technology-driven paradigm shift. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a part of our everyday lives more and more, what can we do to avoid fighting with the future and instead fight for the present and future we want?
Monotype and Kittl, an innovative graphic design platform, have announced a new partnership bringing high-quality fonts to Kittl’s growing creative user base. The collaboration will be officially unveiled during Web Summit 2024, where both companies’ leaders Ninan Chacko and Nicolas Heymann are taking part in a Web Summit panel discussion, “Designing tomorrow, The role of creative AI.”
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.