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Monotype Imaging Inc. has appointed Vaishnavi Murthy Yerkadithaya as its first Creative Type Director for...

/PRNewswire/ -- Today Monotype, a global leader in type and technology, announced the acquisition of an award-winning type collection of 27 font families from...

/PRNewswire/ -- Monotype, a global leader in type and technology, announced today that the international award-winning Colophon Foundry has joined the Monotype...

Thirty-nine typefaces from The Font Bureau, including David Berlow classics Belizio, and Bureau-Grot, join the Monotype Library WOBURN, Mass., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Monotype®

/PRNewswire/ -- Today Monotype® has announced the acquisition of 39 of Boston-based foundry The Font Bureaus type families, including many designed by...

/PRNewswire/ -- Monotype today announced that it was recently honored at the 73rd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. Members of the Monotype Studio,...

Many independent font designers fear the future of typography is corporate.

We’re doing everything we can to fight racism, but will it ever be enough? I hope I delivered those words in a very virtuous font. But judging by a new CNN op-ed, I may not have. The article begins with a test: Here’s a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine the font you’d use to depict the word “Chinese.” So how’d it look? Did you envision an alphabet rife with “the swingy, wedge-shaped strokes you’ve seen on restaurant signs, menus, take-away boxes and kung-fu movie p...