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.
Creativity today is having a moment—experiencing a renaissance. But how can we take advantage of these transformational shifts, protecting human creativity, expanding access, and keeping community at the center of our work?
Monotype Imaging Inc. announced its partnership with Sufio, a global invoicing solution. This partnership enables Sufio to offer their customers access to over 40,000 fonts from Monotype’s library for use in invoices, credit notes, and other financial documents.
As celebrated in our most recent Type Trends Report, 2024 has seen the rise of the retro, from ’90s nostalgia and grunge to the return of the comforting, traditional serif.
Technological advancements and cutting-edge research are opening new possibilities for us all to engage with information optimized for us individually. How can businesses, schools, and nonprofits prepare for a more personalized future? By taking advantage of insights from research on how people engage with text from efforts like The Readability Consortium, you can improve your customers’ experiences and their outcomes.
Monotype Design Team Lead Marie Boulanger recently spoke with British movie magazine Little White Lies for a video essay illustrating why movie fonts matter to audiences.
Monotype Imaging Inc. has partnered with The Readability Consortium (TRC), a group of engineering, psychophysics, and design researchers dedicated to researching how to make text faster, easier, and more comfortable to read. With this exciting collaboration, Monotype will help amplify efforts in format readability work to investigate how fonts can have an impact on readability by increasing engagement and reducing reader fatigue.
The way language looks has a significant impact in shaping how it is understood. Even if users don’t know the names of the fonts being used, they instinctively infer certain traits onto the message and the brand using them. Today, typefaces are a language we all speak. Learn more with Charles Nix via the Fast Company Executive Board.