Type resources for designers and brand owners
Foundry Stories. From Monotype Fonts.
If you’re here, you likely use, appreciate, and maybe even love type. You might have a favorite (or least favorite) font. Like any good piece of art, each font has an origin, a story, and a team of passionate creators that brought it to life. How much do you know about the designers and creators of those letterforms? Hear from some of our favorite designers about how they got started, what inspires their work, and how Monotype helps deliver their designs to your screens.
Fonts, simplified. By Monotype.
Marketing leaders: you might not realize that streamlining font purchasing in your organization can create substantial efficiencies for your design team, reduce risk, elevate your brand, and save money. Learn how Monotype Fonts not only helps designers, but supports leaders in their mission to help teams work smarter.
Highlights and soundbytes from Brand Talks SXSW.
This year, Monotype brought our Creative Characters podcast to SXSW for our first-ever live recording on stage. Read on for highlights from the unique event.
Key learnings from Brand Talks London.
Brand Talks recently touched down in London at the Vinyl Factory. Read on for some of our favorite highlights from the inspirational evening.
Reflecting on Adobe MAX 2023.
There is nothing as exhilarating as spending three jam-packed days surrounded by friends old and new, learning with each other and from one another at Adobe MAX. Read on for our thoughts after the event.
Celebrating community and creativity at Brand Talks Chicago.
We recently had the fortune of hosting our first-ever Brand Talks in Chicago. Read on as we recap some of the highlights from this wonderful event.
Five takeaways from Brand Talks San Francisco.
Last week, Monotype descended on San Francisco for our first in-person Brand Talks event in the golden city since 2019, read on for our thoughts following the event.
Five takeaways from Brand New Conference.
This year, like many of you, we were excited to be back at the Brand New conference in person for a 2-day meetup of some of the most influential voices in design and branding. Read on for 5 things we learned.
Fonts and luxury brands: Chapter three fashion.
Following on from our research into how fonts are used in the beauty and automotive industries, in part three we take a look at ten luxury fashion brands. What is the most fashionable font style? How do these brands use typefaces to stand out from competitors and are there opportunities which are being missed?
Simon Betsch's Keynote at Brand Talks Munich.
Simon Betsch (Managing Partner KMS TEAM), will show in his keynote how brands can meet consumer expectations in times of social and economic upheaval.
Fonts and luxury brands: Beauty.
There are certain font characteristics which have traditionally been thought of as representative of luxury like serifs and high contrast strokes. We wanted to do some research into the top luxury brands across beauty, fashion, automotive and travel to see which typefaces these brands are using and how. First up the beauty sector – do all beauty brands really use Optima? We looked at ten of the top brands and revealed a few surprises.
The A-Z of typographic terms.
As type designers we can get immersed in an insular typographical bubble at times. It’s easy to forget that our language, the lingo, words and terms that we use to discuss, critique and refine our designs is under the constant pressure of discourse and scrutiny within, often redefining itself.
WWF - The First Metaverse for a Good Cause at Brand Talks Munich.
Karl Nowak (WWF) and Christian Weigel (Digitas Pixelpark) presented the saveyour.world campaign in the metaverse, which features a young, engaged audience that wants to contribute to saving the real world.
IHALC & Monotype present Inside Brands: M&Ms.
A case study of the M&Ms rebrand with panel members from M&Ms in house team, JKR and Monotype.
Inside Brands is the In-House Agency Leaders Club’s new series of online events exploring in-house brand and communications design, in partnership with Monotype. Across the series, we will be looking at how in0house teams work effectively and creatively with external branding studios and Monotype, why type adds value to your brand communications and how to ensure you are using it effectively and efficiently, and new ideas and techniques in type.
Our first session will take a close look at the recent M&Ms re-brand, featuring Steffi Marty, Global Director of Brand Identity and Design at Mars, Kristie Malivindi, Design Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie, and Charles Nix, Creative Type Director at Monotype. Patrick Burgoyne from IHALC moderates the session. We’ll be talking brand strategy, aesthetics, process and implementation and how internal and external teams can best collaborate to produce outstanding work.
TeleNeo by Metadesign at Brand Talks Munich.
Deutsche Telekom, represented by its Senior Brand Manager Andreas Kirpal with Hendrik Bruning, Creative Director, Metadesign, presented their new house font TeleNeo.
Future London Academy: Typography 3.0 with Monotype.
Emilios Theofanous and Phil Garnham and the team of the Future London Academy as they revisit typographic craft, train the eye and place form back into context.
Fonts and luxury brands: Cars.
In part two of our research into the luxury sector and how font styles are used, we look at automotive brands. Still thought of as a masculine dominated industry we were interested to see if there were any similarities with our last study which was focused on the beauty sector.
Why Fonts Make Us Feel with Phil Garnham at Brand Talks Munich.
Phil Garnham, Senior Type Director at Monotype, presented the results of a scientific study that qualitatively and quantitatively proves the influence of type.