Monotype Imaging Announces More than 100 Fonts Available from its Monotype, Linotype and ITC Typeface Foundries

WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monotype Imaging Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has expanded its Monotype^®, Linotype^® and ITC^® typeface collections with more than 100 designs. The fonts can be previewed and purchased from the company’s e-commerce sites: Fonts.com, Linotype.com, ITCFonts.com and Faces.co.uk.

“We’ve always placed a high priority on enhancing our typeface selection on an ongoing basis,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. “It’s important that our customers not only enjoy a growing selection of high-quality typefaces but also have the freedom to choose fonts from their preferred source.”

New to the Monotype Library

The Slate™ Condensed family by Rod MacDonald leads a selection of releases from the Monotype foundry. Elegant yet functional, the fonts add six space-savings designs to the original Slate family. Also new to the Monotype Library is the Givens Antiqua™ family. Drawn by George Ryan of Monotype Imaging and named in honor of Robert M. Givens, Monotype Imaging’s first president and chief executive officer and current chairman of the board, the Givens Antiqua design employs a generous x-height and open proportions to promote readability. The new Monotype typefaces follow the April announcement of the Soho^® Gothic family, the latest offering by Monotype Imaging’s Sebastian Lester, which extends his 40-font Soho collection released last year.

New to the Linotype Library

Designed by Akira Kobayashi, type director at Linotype, the Eurostile^® Next family is the newest of five typeface families added to the Linotype Library. Part of the Linotype Platinum™ Collection, Eurostile Next is an enhanced and expanded version of the widely used Eurostile typeface family. Like the original, Eurostile Next uses open, squared letterforms to create a modern aesthetic. The Cosmiqua™ family, also from Kobayashi, exudes a lively, youthful feel inspired by advertising from the 1950s. The design includes five weights, each with an italic counterpart.

The Satero™ family, created by designer Werner Schneider, is a versatile type system that contains complementary sans serif and serif variations. Designed with newspaper and magazine use in mind, the Satero family offers high legibility and slightly condensed proportions to help maximize space limitations.

Calligrapher Gaynor Goffe brings to the Linotype Library the Hamada™ typeface, a script design that captures the feeling of ink on paper. The font offers many alternate characters and a series of ligatures and swashes for seemingly limitless combinations.

Also new to the Linotype Library is the Frutiger^® Arabic family, which carries over the friendly, yet professional demeanor of the original Frutiger design to the Arabic alphabet. Created by Linotype designer Nadine Chahine, with the approval of Adrian Frutiger, who designed the Frutiger typeface in the 1970s, the Frutiger Arabic family is intended for use in a variety of applications, form signage to corporate design.

Chahine, Kobayashi and Frutiger are also credited with other typefaces announced this year, including the Frutiger Serif family, designed by Kobayashi and Frutiger, and the Palatino^® Arabic design, created by Chahine and Hermann Zapf, who designed the original Palatino typeface more than 50 years ago. The Palatino Arabic typeface was honored for design excellence at the TDC² 2008 design competition held by the Type Directors Club of New York City.

“The steady stream of new releases keeps our collections fresh and dynamic,” said Chahine, who, in addition to designing typefaces, manages sales marketing at Linotype. “We’re also able to collaborate with master typographers such as Mr. Frutiger and Prof. Zapf, who through their experience and expertise are able to take typography to its highest level, which is evident in each design they touch.”

New to the ITC Library

The ITC Franklin™ family, which evolved from the widely used ITC Franklin Gothic™ design, is the latest release from International Typeface Corporation, a Monotype Imaging Inc. company. Designer David Berlow created the ITC Franklin version specifically for use at display sizes. ITC also released OpenType^® Pro versions of the popular ITC Stone^® and ITC Bodoni™ families. OpenType fonts, which operate on both Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms, allow type designers to create large character sets within fonts – up to 65,000 characters – well beyond the 256 characters supported by PostScript® Type 1 or TrueType® fonts. Instead of creating multiple fonts, a typeface designer can build a single OpenType font that provides access to characters that would have previously required switching between fonts. The ITC Stone Pro collection includes the ITC Stone Serif Pro, ITC Stone Sans Pro, ITC Stone Informal Pro and ITC Stone Humanist Pro families. Each shares an underlying structure that allows the designs to coexist harmoniously. The ITC Bodoni family is intended to serve as a faithful rendition of Giambattista Bodoni’s most revered typeface design. As OpenType Pro families, the ITC Stone Pro and ITC Bodoni Pro offerings provide expanded character sets to support most Central European and many Eastern European languages.

The ITC Mattia™ design from designer Giuseppe Errico is a distinctive handwriting font, with its scrawled letterforms that produce a tense, nervous tone. The ITC Santangeli™ face, also from Errico, is based on an 18^th century manuscript by Italian writer, Benedetto Santangeli. The design includes alternate characters and ink splotches to enable a realistic reproduction of antique lettering.

Availability

Individual fonts, selection packs and typeface families can be viewed, purchased and downloaded from www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk. Customers may also contact Monotype Imaging in the U.S. toll-free at 800-424-8973, or in Europe at (+44 0)1737 765959, or 001781 970-6020, option 2. Linotype in Germany can be reached at +49 (0) 6172 484-418. Customers from other parts of the world may dial 001 781 970-6020 (U.S.).

About Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging is a global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices including laser printers, copiers, mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, digital cameras and software applications and operating systems. The company also provides printer drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging technologies are combined with access to more than 10,000 typefaces from the Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface libraries – home to some of the world’s most widely used designs, including the Times New Roman^®, Helvetica^® and ITC Franklin Gothic typefaces. Fonts are licensed to creative and business professionals through custom font design services, direct sales or e-commerce portals. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions that support all of the world’s major languages. The company is based in Woburn, Mass., with regional offices in the U.K., Germany (Linotype), Mt. Prospect, Ill., Redwood City, Calif., Boulder, Colo., Japan and China. Information about Monotype Imaging and its products can be found at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com, www.itcfonts.com, www.fonts.hk and www.faces.co.uk.

Monotype and Soho are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Slate and Givens Antiqua are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Times New Roman is a trademark of The Monotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Linotype and Eurostile are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Frutiger, Helvetica and Palatino are trademarks of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. Cosmiqua, Satero, Hamada and Linotype Platinum are trademarks of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. ITC, ITC Stone, ITC Stone Serif, ITC Stone Sans and ITC Stone Informal are trademarks of International Typeface Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. ITC Franklin, ITC Franklin Gothic, ITC Bodoni, ITC Mattia and ITC Santangeli are trademarks of International Typeface Corp. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Microsoft, Windows and OpenType are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the U. S. and/or other countries. PostScript is either a registered trademark or trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Macintosh and TrueType are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2008 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved.

Source: Monotype Imaging Inc.