Monotype Foundry Program

Where independent foundries find their global home.

The Monotype Foundry Program brings together independent foundries, type designers, and creative businesses from around the world. Explore the work, perspectives, and typefaces shaping the future of typography.

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Why it matters

More than a marketplace.

We built the Foundry Program on a simple belief: great typography deserves both creative recognition and commercial opportunity.

By connecting foundries with a global audience, enterprise customers, licensing expertise, and industry support, we're building a more sustainable future for type, together.

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Reach a global audience

Put your work in front of designers, brands, and creative teams around the world, through Monotype's channels.

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Grow your business

Connect your typefaces with commercial opportunities, backed by pricing, marketing, and licensing expertise.

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Protect your work

Get licensing support and resources that help customers use fonts correctly and respect your original work.

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Stay independent

Keep your creative voice and foundry identity, and get broader visibility and long-term support with it.

Foundry stories

Built with foundries, shaped by their experiences.

The Foundry Program is built around partnerships with independent foundries from around the world. Explore stories from foundry owners, type designers, and teams who share their perspectives on building a type business, navigating the industry, and working with Monotype.

Foundry story

Latinotype.

Based in Santiago, Chile, Latinotype is a family-run foundry with more than 5,000 fonts.

Foundry stories

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Reach and scale

A global platform for independent type.

The Foundry Program connects independent foundries with the creative teams, enterprises, and organizations looking for distinctive, reliable type.

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5,000+

Foundry Partners

350,000+

Fonts

Millions

of Creative Users

Global

Enterprise Reach

Distribution network

How your fonts reach customers.

Your work can reach designers, creative teams, enterprise organizations, and brands through multiple Monotype channels.

Creative team workflow

Monotype Fonts

Help teams discover, prototype, and license fonts right inside their workflow.

Designers searching for fonts

MyFonts

Reach designers and creative buyers actively searching for distinctive new type.

Enterprise creative organization

Enterprise customers

Connect your work with organizations that need reliable font licensing at scale.

Global brand experience

Global brands

Extend your reach into the brand, product, publication, and experience work seen every day.

What foundries gain

Built to help foundries thrive.

Joining the Foundry Program gives you access to tools, expertise, and opportunities designed to support sustainable growth.

Monotype Fonts access for enterprise teams and creative professionals

Enterprise Subscription distribution

Put your work in front of enterprise teams and creative professionals.

MyFonts exposure reaching designers searching for new fonts and creative voices

MyFonts orders

Reach customers actively searching for new fonts and fresh creative voices.

Licensing support helping customers license fonts correctly and confidently

Licensing support

Help customers license fonts correctly and confidently across real-world use cases.

Marketing opportunities including promotions, launches, and featured placements

Marketing opportunities

Join promotions, launches, featured placements, and storytelling moments.

Foundry platform for managing fonts, pricing, promotions, reports, and agreements

Management tools

Manage fonts, pricing, promotions, reports, and agreements in one place.

Reporting and earnings with transparent performance tracking and insights

Earnings and performance

Track performance through transparent reporting designed to support informed decisions.

Industry expertise guided by customer behavior, market insights, and type industry experience

Industry expertise

Receive guidance informed by customer behavior, market insight, and type industry experience.

Long-term partnership supporting your foundry and the broader type industry

Long-term partnership

Work with a team invested in the health of your foundry and the broader type industry.

Partner voices

What our partners say.

Svetoslav Simov

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As part of the community for a long time now, we’ve always felt Monotype’s vision aligned with the sense of relevance of long-standing partners and young type designers alike. Foretelling commercial success is a lot easier that way!

Svetoslav Simov

Founder of Fontfabric

Luciano Vergara

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At Latinotype we spend time designing fonts in direct response to the information provided by Monotype. We carefully study their rankings and analytics before designing or modifying fonts.

Luciano Vergara

Director at Latinotype

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Monotype is a great resource for novice type designers to sell their work, offering comprehensive information on their website.

Cahya Sofyan

Founder of Studio Sun

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Royalties and reporting

Transparent reporting and earnings.

Foundry partners receive reporting and earnings visibility designed to support long-term growth and informed business decisions.

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MyFonts revenue

See how your fonts perform through one of the world’s most recognized font marketplaces.

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Enterprise subscription usage

See how your work is prototyped and used by creative teams in Monotype Fonts and Monotype Connect.

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Production fonts

Gain visibility into licensing activity connected to real-world production use.

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Reporting transparency

Access clear reporting that helps you track performance, understand results, and make informed decisions.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Answers to common questions from foundries considering the Monotype Foundry Program.

When you join the foundry program, your fonts are released to Monotype Fonts, Monotype Connect, and MyFonts.com.

You’ll receive in-platform sales information and quarterly reports, tying your earnings to customer activity across Monotype channels.

Of course! When you partner with us, you can continue selling your fonts in other marketplaces and on your own site. Just make sure to add your entire library with us so we can properly support customers. If you’d like us to handle more of your business, we have options for exclusivity. Just let us know!

Absolutely! Manage and update your font details in your foundry tools. Add new font families, update font files, change prices, mange images, update descriptions and tags, and more!

A dedicated team of experts is available via email with coverage across all time zones. Get connected with members of the foundry team at Monotype for expertise and guidance related to your foundry strategy, marketing, and more.

After joining, you’ll go through an onboarding series where you’ll get all the relevant information to get started with font submissions, set up payment details, and access your foundry tools. We host quarterly webinars, and share guidance, videos, and monthly newsletters to keep you up to date.

More ways to connect

Explore other partnership opportunities.

Monotype works with foundries and type designers when they’re ready to take their businesses to a new level.

Acquisition opportunities.

Sell your entire foundry brand or just a collection of your fonts.

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Premier partnership.

Develop a closer relationship with Monotype that leverages your unique capabilities for enhanced placement and promotion.

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Careers at Monotype.

Join the Monotype team and help grow the type industry. We're always looking for type experts, designers, and people who know how to build a business.

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Ready to grow your foundry?

Join the Monotype Foundry Program, and put your work in front of a bigger audience, backed by real expertise and a community that believes great type deserves to thrive.

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