Monotype Fonts is adding variable fonts to its range
Monotype Fonts expands font cloud. (Image: Shutterstock)
Monotype Fonts, the company’s font solution launched in late 2020, is growing and thriving. The very simple licensing model is apparently well received. Now there are a few updates.
Finding, managing, properly licensing, and then using fonts correctly have always been one of the things designers hated the most. The offer was almost unmanageable, a lot of it was lousy and the licensing was a nightmare in itself.
The offer Monotype fonts is therefore one of the designer’s favorite services. The cloud-based service provides over 36,000 font designs and more than 50,000 fonts that are covered by a single license agreement. In the meantime, international brands such as the ketchup company Heinz or the crypto service provider Coindesk use the font service.
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Monotype has not only equipped the fonts service with more than 6,000 additional font designs in the current year, not all of which come from Monotype’s inventory. Rather, the provider has made its service more convenient and efficient to use.
Improved style classification and visual filters make it easier for users to quickly refine their searches and find exactly the font that meets their specific needs. Variable fonts are now also part of the so-called basic inventory. Variable fonts represent the next stage in the development of web fonts and would certainly establish themselves on the market faster if there were not still different specifications for them.
Third-party fonts can also be uploaded and managed via the new font import. This makes Monotype Fonts the font center for the creative team. Monotype has also worked on font hosting for web fonts. A more filigree subsetting function is intended to reduce character sets to the bare minimum in order to accelerate website development.
Monotype Fonts, which before December 2020 was still called “Enterprise Font Solution” and thus had a far less crisp name than it is today, costs from 1,200 euros for an annual subscription.
