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Corporate Profile
Monotype Imaging is a leading global provider of text imaging solutions. Our technologies and fonts enable the display and printing of high-quality digital text. Our software technologies have been widely deployed across and embedded within a range of consumer electronic devices — including mobile phones, laser printers, digital copiers, digital televisions, set-top boxes and digital cameras, as well as in numerous software applications and operating systems. Our solutions solve critical text imaging issues by rendering high-quality text on low-resolution and memory-constrained devices.
We combine these proprietary technologies with access to more than 9,000 typefaces from a library of some of the most widely used designs in the world. We also license our typefaces to creative and business professionals through custom font design services, direct sales and our e-commerce Web sites, Fonts.com, ITCfonts.com, Linotype.com and Faces.co.uk.
Monotype Imaging is an international company with offices in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, China and Japan, with additional resources in Taiwan and Korea. Our professionals include specialists in text imaging, typeface design, typographic engineering, language expertise and type production.
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Quick Facts about Monotype Imaging
| About Monotype Imaging |
Monotype Imaging is a leading global provider of text imaging solutions. |
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| Customers |
Monotype Imaging’s customers are a diverse group:
- Device manufacturers and platform providers requiring embedded fonts and technologies, optimal on-screen text display, multilingual technologies, font customization and services, printer drivers or color and screening solutions
- manufacturers of display devices including mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, laser printers, digital copiers and digital cameras
- operating system providers for computer platforms and wireless environments
- independent software vendors and application developers
- Creative professionals, corporations and consumers requiring high-quality fonts or custom type designs
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| Main products |
iType® font engine – a font rendering subsystem based on TrueType® and OpenType® font standards. The iType font engine brings scalable type and multilingual support to memory-constrained environments, enabling enhanced font choice and improved text display quality.
WorldType® Layout Engine – a software library for enabling the on-screen composition, positioning and rendering of high-quality multilingual text.
Scalable fonts for embedded environments – custom or packaged sets of fonts, including multilingual designs, engineered for optimal reproduction on screen or in print. Monotype Imaging’s line of ESQ® Mobile fonts (Enhanced Screen Quality fonts) are fine-tuned for cell phones and other small display devices.
UFST® (Universal Font Scaling Technology™) – a font rendering subsystem that uses industry-standard trademarked names and font metrics, ensuring compatibility with printers based on industry font standards of Adobe, HP and Microsoft.
MicroType® and ACT™ (Asian Compression for TrueType®) – patented compression and decompression technologies that maximize memory efficiency for font data storage.
Printer drivers and ColorSet™ imaging tools – print drivers for PDL- and raster-based printers, and color solutions that enable printers to generate consistent, high-quality color.
Fonts for creative professionals – growing collections of distinctive typefaces from the Linotype, Monotype and ITC libraries which comprise thousands of fonts, from timeless classics to contemporary designs.
Font licensing and font management solutions – services and tools based on Monotype Imaging’s Fontwise® font license management solution and Linotype’s FontExplorer™ X font management software for helping customers manage fonts and “stay legal.”
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| Customers and Partners |
Monotype Imaging licenses technology solutions to a wide variety of customers, from cell phone manufacturers and platform providers to multinational corporations seeking custom fonts for branding and corporate identity requirements. In addition to eight of the world’s top 10 laser printer manufacturers, we license solutions or partner with a broad range of companies serving consumer electronics markets.
Sampling of CE customers and partners
ACCESS
ANT
ATI
Bitrouter
Cisco
Ikivo
JVC
Microsoft
Motorola
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Nokia
Opera
Pioneer
QUALCOMM
Skelmir
Sony Ericsson
Symbian
Zoran
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| Standards |
Monotype Imaging works with international standard-setting industry organizations as participating members, helping to shape the evolvement of fonts and font technologies. Technology solutions also conform to certain industry or government mandates, such as the Federal Communications Commission’s specification for closed caption display on digital and analog televisions.
DVB
Khronos
MPEG
Unicode® Consortium
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| Monotype Imaging Founded |
2004 |
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| Company History |
The company that became Monotype Imaging began as the Font Technologies division of Compugraphic Corp. in 1986 |
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| Executive team, Monotype Imaging Inc. |
Doug Shaw, president and chief executive officer
John Seguin, execute vice president
Jacquie Arthur, senior vice president and CFO
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| Managing Director, Monotype Imaging Limited |
John McCallum
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| Managing Director, Linotype GmbH |
Frank Wildenberg
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| Managing Director, China Type Design |
Ricky Chun
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Employees
(as of June 1, 2007) |
241 (Monotype Imaging, China Type and Linotype)
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| Web sites |
MonotypeImaging.com
Fonts.com
Monotypefonts.com
Customfonts.com
Linotype.com
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ITCFonts.com
Faces.co.uk
Fontwise.com
Monotype.Com.hk
Fonts.hk
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| Headquarters |
Monotype Imaging Inc.
500 Unicorn Park Drive
Woburn, MA 01801
Tel 781-970-6000
Fax 781-970-6001
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| Offices |
Regional offices are in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing (China Type), Bad Homburg, Germany (Linotype), Mt. Prospect, Ill, Redwood City, Calif. and Boulder Colo. with additional resources in Taiwan and Korea |
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