Many businesses assume they’re covered for the long haul once they secure a font license, to only to find out that isn’t the case. Many businesses assume they’re covered for the long haul once they secure a font license, only to find out that isn’t the case. 

Discover how typography can transform your brand in The brand builder’s guide to fonts. Dive into the pivotal role fonts play in shaping brand identity, enhancing emotional connections, and crafting compelling stories.

The Fonts, Feels, & Reels: Generational Attitudes to Type – 2025 Report explores what type means to each generation, how it’s used, and why it matters to us.

Partnering with survey experts Censuswide, we asked 12,000 people — from Boomers to Gen Z, across six countries — how they post, create, express, and perceive the fonts around them.

Social media creativity is evolving. As we spend more of our personal and working lives online, fonts have become a way to blend in, belong, or stand out. And across generations, respondents are recognizing this shift, seeking out the social media and platforms that give them more choices and creative control.

Download the report today to explore the generational trends driving font habits and needs, how things are changing, and what we need to do to keep up.

Delve into the survey’s themes:

• Fonts matter more than ever.
• Fonts turn text into expression.
• Fonts: The secret ingredient for driving engagement.
• More fonts, please.
• First impressions start with fonts.

How do various generations perceive and respond to typography?

The typefaces or logo designs chosen by luxury houses are never random: they embody their values, history, and vision while reflecting their strategic positioning. 

In a recent collaboration, OPX Studio and Monotype embarked on a transformative journey to refresh the branding of the Trussell Trust, a charity organization committed to ending hunger in the UK. This exciting project was spearheaded by David Bennet, Creative Director of OPX Studio, alongside Emilios Theofanous, Creative Type Director at Monotype, and Phil Garnham, Executive Creative Director at Monotype.

Pioneering French lingerie brand Chantelle has stood for decades as a powerhouse of innovation and elegance. Over the past seven years, the brand has undergone a major transformation, refining its portfolio to better speak to the many facets of femininity.

Toddle, a pioneering ed-tech platform, is dedicated to empowering educators with tools to create and deliver world-class learning experiences. With a mission to simplify teaching and learning for schools and teachers worldwide, Toddle places design and user experience at the core of its product strategy.

This report is different – different from what we’ve done in the past and different from the top ten lists found everywhere across the design landscape. This year, we’re turning our gaze forward to examine the trends impacting our world and the ways type and design can leave a mark on our future.

We recently spoke with London designer and Art Director Hugh Miller about the project that landed him the Freda Sack award, the highest accolade from the International Society of Typographic Designers. Read on to learn more about his thoughtful work.

We recently had the pleasure of hosting Brand Talks in Cologne. It was our first ever aufenthalt  in the carnival-capital, and it was a great success! We enjoyed a captivating afternoon, hearing from some of the industry’s finest, talking about what they do best. Monotype’s  Creative Type Director,Sina Otto set the stage with a powerful opening. 

There comes a time in every organization’s life when a makeover becomes essential.

Over the last year or so, Pearlfisher became a Monotype agency partner, and doing so has made life a lot easier for the Realization team. Read on to learn how Monotype Fonts has streamlined organizing font files and tracking licensing information for Pearlfisher.

Get to know Gabriela Parra Sánchez, the 2024 Beatrice Warde Scholarship recipient, an artist and illustrator in formation at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Read on for an interview with the promising young designer. 

Get to know Patrick Guanaz, the 2024 Adé Hogue Scholarship recipient and a senior at Centro Universitário Senac in São Paulo, Brazil. Read on for an interview with the promising young designer. 

There comes a time in every organization’s life when a makeover becomes essential.

Inspired by a conversation with the power-couple in typography who blessed the world with the Wingdings font families, we bring you a two-part deep dive into all things dingbats.

Inspired by a conversation with the power-couple in typography who blessed the world with the Wingdings font families —Kris Holmes and Charles “Chuck” Bigelow—we bring you a two-part deep dive into all things dingbats. Here, in Part 1, we unpack dingbats with a focus on Wingdings; In Part 2, we look at “Dingbats beyond Wingdings: Zapf Dingbats, Webdings, Emoticons, and Emojis”.