Monotype

Monotype is a global provider of type intellectual property and font technologies, offering a range of solutions that include custom type design services and enterprise software for visual content marketing. The company is dedicated to enhancing digital engagement and visual expression across various platforms, catering to designers, marketers, and engineers. Its products ensure a consistent user experience across digital devices, such as printers, copiers, and mobile devices, while also providing essential text experiences in numerous software applications and operating systems. Monotype licenses its design assets and technologies to creative professionals, consumer device manufacturers, and developers, enabling them to focus on creating impactful brand experiences. Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, Monotype operates internationally in markets across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan.

Charles Nix

Type Director

16 past transactions

Extensis

Acquisition in 2024
Extensis is a company that specializes in managing fonts and digital assets through a versatile desktop and cloud-based platform. Its primary product, Connect Assets, provides comprehensive digital asset management solutions tailored for freelancers, marketing agencies, and creative teams. In addition to digital asset management, Extensis offers software for brand management, marketing operations management, and image compression. The company's tools are designed to streamline workflows, allowing users to efficiently find, share, and safeguard their data, including high-resolution geospatial imagery. By combining these capabilities, Extensis aims to enhance creativity and support the sustainability of creative enterprises.

Fontworks

Acquisition in 2023
Fontworks is a company that focuses on the design, development, and sale of digital fonts and software products. It aims to enhance communication by providing a diverse range of language-specific digital fonts, including those for Japanese, European, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Hebrew languages. Additionally, Fontworks offers embedded font systems and technical services tailored for various digital applications, including home appliances, in-vehicle devices, and medical equipment. Through its innovative offerings, Fontworks strives to create new value in the realm of digital typography and communication.

Hoefler

Acquisition in 2021
Hoefler&Co is one of the most iconic names in type design, having designed the fonts that give voice to many of the world’s foremost institutions, publications, causes, and brands.

URW Type Foundry

Acquisition in 2020
URW Type Foundry is a renowned company specializing in the design and development of high-quality fonts and software solutions. With a strong focus on innovation, URW has extensive experience in creating custom typefaces tailored to meet the specific needs of global brands. The company's client portfolio includes prominent names such as General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Siemens, highlighting its expertise in delivering corporate typefaces that enhance brand identity.

Fontsmith

Acquisition in 2020
Fontsmith Limited is a boutique type foundry based in London, United Kingdom, established in 1997. The company specializes in designing and developing fonts, logos, and licensing solutions. It provides a comprehensive range of services, including custom font design, logo development, design for accessibility, fonts for broadcast, font modification, and global language services. As of January 2020, Fontsmith operates as a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.

Olapic

Acquisition in 2016
Olapic Inc. operates a visual marketing platform that transforms consumer-generated photos and videos into valuable brand assets for marketing and e-commerce. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Cordoba, Argentina, and London, the company specializes in collecting, curating, and analyzing visual content from social media. Olapic's services enhance brand and retailer engagement by creating authentic marketing experiences that drive sales and improve campaign performance. The platform supports various sectors, including apparel, beauty, and travel, and offers features such as predictive consumer-generated ads and Instagram shopping. As of late 2020, Olapic functions as a subsidiary of Social Native LLC.

Swyft Media

Acquisition in 2015
Swyft Media Inc. is a provider of mobile advertising solutions that enables brands to establish a digital presence in the mobile landscape. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, the company offers tools for engaging mobile users through various methods, including data capture, couponing, and branded content featuring emojis and stickers. Swyft Media helps advertisers, brands, and developers effectively reach and monetize over two billion mobile users, partnering with more than 300 organizations, including top entertainment and sports brands. By leveraging its extensive network, Swyft Media delivers scalable solutions that allow brands to target young and engaged consumers on popular mobile and social platforms, ensuring measurable return on investment. The company operates as a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.

FontShop International

Acquisition in 2014
Founded in 1989 by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody, FontShop is a leading independent retailer specializing in desktop fonts for creative professionals and agencies. Its platform offers a wide range of customizable typographic solutions, licensing options, and integration capabilities with design software.

Mark Boulton Design

Acquisition in 2014
Mark Boulton Design Ltd. is a web design studio that specializes in creating visually engaging and user-friendly websites. The company provides a range of design services, including graphic design and text imaging, tailored to meet the needs of its clients. In addition to its design services, Mark Boulton Design develops, markets, and sells Gridset, a responsive layout tool that allows web designers to utilize grid-system composition techniques. This innovative tool enables the creation and application of optimized grids for various devices, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of web design projects.

Design By Front

Acquisition in 2012
Design By Front offers Web strategy, customer research, project scoping, content strategy, customer engagement, paper prototyping, information architecture, wireframing and usability testing, visual design, and Web development services.

Front Studio

Acquisition in 2012
Front is a user experience design and web development studio, based in Belfast. We help our clients get real value from the web by delivering better experiences to their customers. Our core capabilities are based on strategy, design and technology: * **Strategy** - wow do we create and sustain competitive advantage using the web? * **Design** - who are our users and how can we build a close relationship with them? How do we create an experience that is worthwhile for users every single time? * **Technology** - what tools do we need to apply to deliver on our strategy and delight our users? How do we effectively create, manage and publish text, images, audio, video and other content?

Bitstream

Acquisition in 2012
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company's core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world's 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple.

Ascender

Acquisition in 2010
ASCENDER® CORPORATION is a leading provider of advanced font products specializing in type design, font development and licensing. Ascender's founders are font industry experts and have been involved in developing some of the most important and influential fonts used in computers, phones and many other hardware & software products. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development for a wide range of customers including creative professionals, enterprises and hardware & software developers.

Planetweb

Acquisition in 2009
PlanetWeb, Inc. is a developer specializing in products and applications tailored for the internet appliance market. Founded in 1996 and based in Redwood Shores, California, the company is known for creating the PlanetWeb Browser, which functions as a web browser and integrated email application. This software is designed for a variety of internet-enabled devices, including video game systems, television videophones, DVD players, set-top boxes, and internet-enabled televisions. Through its innovative solutions, PlanetWeb aims to enhance the user experience across diverse platforms.

Linotype

Acquisition in 2006
Linotype is a renowned provider of original typeface designs and font software. It offers an extensive collection of high-quality typefaces, including iconic designs like Helvetica, Frutiger, Univers, and Optima.

Design210

Design210 is a type foundry and font designer known for its library of original fonts and custom type solutions. The company develops versatile display fonts for media, design, and advertising across Asia, serving a diverse client base that includes media companies, designers, advertisers, and major corporate customers such as Samsung and KIA Motors.
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