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Standards

Monotype Imaging is a member of the Unicode® Consortium, a nonprofit organization founded to develop, extend and promote the use of the Unicode Standard and related software globalization standards.

The Unicode Standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.

Monotype Imaging developed the Arial® Unicode MS font in conjunction with Microsoft, and today all fonts developed by Monotype Imaging conform to the Unicode Standard.

The Moving Picture Experts Group is a committee of the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), the worldwide network of national standards institutes.

MPEG develops international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio, and their combination to satisfy a wide variety of applications.

Monotype Imaging’s MicroType® Express font compression technology, along with the Unicode-compliant OpenType® font format co-developed by Microsoft and Adobe, has been included in the MPEG-4 specification, the standard for coding multimedia video, audio, and interactive computer-animated graphics applications. The technologies are specified in the ISO/IEC document 14496-18, “Font Compression and Streaming.”

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium committed to designing standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services.

DVB standards cover all aspects of digital television from transmission through interfacing, conditional access and interactivity for digital video, audio and data. Numerous broadcast services use DVB standards, and hundreds of manufacturers offer DVB-compliant equipment for terrestrial, satellite and cable transmission. DVB’s Multimedia Home Platform serves as core technology for handling interactive digital TV, including the facilitation of links to the Internet.

Monotype Imaging’s participation in DVB involves providing expertise in the development of DVB font standards.

The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standard APIs to enable the authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API standards and are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment of specifications. Members are also able to accelerate the delivery of cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

Monotype Imaging’s involvement with Khronos extends to helping define and shape standards for fonts, multilingual text and text composition.

Contact us to find out more or inquire about Monotype Imaging’s participation in worldwide industry standards committees.