Pre-press and pre-media services machinery industry and plant construction
Founded
1887; 137 years ago (1887) (as Lanston Monotype Machine Company) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Headquarters
Woburn, Massachusetts
,
U.S.
Key people
Ninan Chacko (CEO)
Products
Fonts
Parent
HGGC
Subsidiaries
Linotype GmbH
International Typeface Corporation
Ascender Corporation
Bitstream Inc.
FontShop
Fontsmith
Hoefler & Co.
URW Type Foundry
Fontworks
Website
www.monotype.com
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with consumer electronics devices.[1] Incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, the company has been responsible for many developments in printing technology—in particular the Monotype machine, which was a fully mechanical hotmetal typesetter, that produced texts automatically, all single type. Monotype was involved in the design and production of many typefaces in the 20th century. Monotype developed many of the most widely used typeface designs, including Times New Roman, Gill Sans, Arial, Bembo and Albertus.
Via acquisitions including Linotype GmbH, International Typeface Corporation, Bitstream, FontShop, URW, Hoefler & Co. and Fontworks, the company has gained the rights to major font families including Helvetica, ITC Franklin Gothic, Optima, ITC Avant Garde, Palatino, FF DIN and Gotham. It also owns MyFonts, used by many independent font design studios.[2] The company is owned by HGGC, a private equity firm.[3]
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^Quito, Anne (23 October 2021). "A famous type foundry's sale to a PE-backed giant has rattled the font industry". Quartz. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
MonotypeImaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American)...
percent greater range of tones. Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent...
"About Us: The Monotype Chronicles". MonotypeImaging. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2011. 1983 [...] Monotype supplied IBM...
Serif, Tahoma and Wingdings. MonotypeImaging currently also licenses Arial Unicode on its own. It was also bundled by Monotype as part of iPhone Compatibility...
Founder Electronics and Monotype Corporation under commission from Microsoft. Hinting for the font was undertaken by MonotypeImaging. The CJK ideographic...
Monotype Grotesque is a family of sans-serif typefaces released by the Monotype Corporation for its hot metal typesetting system. It belongs to the grotesque...
Associates acquired the Monotype assets and incorporated the company as MonotypeImaging. Later, in August 2006, MonotypeImaging acquired Linotype. By...
Boston), and started selling fonts in March 2000. In November 2011, MonotypeImaging announced plans to acquire MyFonts and the other font-related parts...
MonotypeImaging Ascender Corporation a subsidiary of MonotypeImaging Bitstream a subsidiary of MonotypeImaging FontFont a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging...
Linotype GmbH was acquired by MonotypeImaging Holdings, Inc., the parent of MonotypeImaging, Inc. and others. Monotype announced in August 2023 that...
sans-serif typeface developed by Sandoll Communications, with hinting by MonotypeImaging, as a replacement of Dotum and Gulim as the default system font for...
typefaces and the development of non-Latin fonts. It has been owned by MonotypeImaging since May 2020. URW was founded in 1971 by Gerhard Rubow and Jürgen...
license may be obtained from Ascender Corporation and its parent company MonotypeImaging. The Calibri Light font was introduced in Windows 8 and was retrospectively...
FontShop International was acquired by MonotypeImaging on July 14, 2014. The deal came as part of Monotype's takeover of many of the other large digital...
production of metal type. It is now a wholly owned brand or subsidiary of MonotypeImaging. The company was founded to design, license and market typefaces for...
super/sub-script OpenType feature. It is a version of Rotis Sans designed by MonotypeImaging senior designer Robin Nicholas, and freelance designer Alice Savoie...
typeface in the geometric style, released by MonotypeImaging in 1990. It is a redrawn version of Monotype's own Twentieth Century, a copy of Bauer's Futura...
technology devices. On December 8, 2010, Ascender Corp. was acquired by MonotypeImaging. The company marketed both directly to consumers with font packs and...
an updated version of Comic Sans created by Terrance Weinzierl from MonotypeImaging. While retaining the original designs of the core characters, it expands...
collaboration of Mirza Ahmad Jamil TI (as calligrapher) and MonotypeImaging (formerly Monotype Corp.), suffered from two problems in the 1990s: a) its non-availability...
the word means a 'knot'. Haley, Allan. "The Letter Q". Fonts.com. MonotypeImaging Corporation. Archived from the original on 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2017-02-03...
Retrieved 26 March 2012. "MonotypeImaging Completes Acquisition of Bitstream's Font Business". press release. MonotypeImaging. 19 March 2012. Archived...
"Confusing (and Frequently Misused) Type Terminology, Part 1". fonts.com. MonotypeImaging. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011. Ken Whistler; Mark...
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