Monotype Imaging Adds Over 3,700 New Font Products to Fonts.com

Business Wire, Feb 15, 2005

WILMINGTON, Mass. & SALFORDS, Surrey, England -- Monotype Imaging Inc. has released typefaces on Fonts.com from several type foundries: In Your Typeface, Masterfont, Altemus Creative, Stockbucket, Font City, and ABC Types. Also added is a collection of OpenType(R) fonts from Adobe Systems Inc. In all, more than 3,700 new font products can be viewed, purchased and downloaded from www.fonts.com/foundries.

"Foundries are emerging from all around the world with impressive typeface designs." said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. "This group of releases features the exceptional work of foundries from Israel, Russia and Australia."

In Your Typeface is an Australian foundry that features fonts from lead designers Stephen and Kristy Chic. According to the husband and wife team, the foundry specializes in unusual, aggressive and decorative display typefaces such as the Sisterhand(TM) handwriting font, available in three weights. The 48 In Your Typeface font products are offered in the PostScript(R) and TrueType(R) formats for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Macintosh(R) systems. Prices start at $28.

Masterfont is home to one of the world's largest collections of Hebrew fonts. Among Masterfont's more than 1600 designs is the Narkis Tam(TM) family, available in extra light, light, medium and bold weights, plus corresponding italics. Products are available in the Postscript format for Macintosh platforms and in the TrueType format for Windows platforms starting at $65.

Altemus Creative has worked for more than 10 years to compile a collection of original ornament and symbol fonts. The Altemus Borders(TM) 1 typeface family contains a series of diamonds, bursts, arrows, pointers, stars and various shapes for creating bullets, accents and other possibilities. The 56 Altemus Creative font products are available in the PostScript and TrueType formats for Windows and Macintosh systems. Prices begin at $28.

Stockbucket offers an assortment of display typefaces from designers David Phillips and Traci Daberko. The B-52(TM) typeface was inspired by the lettering used on the vehicles of the U.S. military. Stockbucket offers 16 products in the PostScript and TrueType formats for Macintosh systems and in the TrueType format for Windows platforms. Stockbucket fonts are priced at $36.

FontCity includes complete Russian and Latin character sets with each of its eight products on Fonts.com. The Tsaritsyn(TM) typeface is a decorative design with Eastern European overtones. FontCity products are available in the PostScript and TrueType formats for Windows systems. Prices begin at $25.

Marketed by International TypeFounders, ABC Types offers a variety of typographic styles ranging from classical to grunge. The Society(TM) typeface family bears a highly-compressed, squared sans structure and can be described as one of the foundry's more modern creations. ABC Types offers 118 products in the PostScript and TrueType formats for Windows systems and in the PostScript format for Macintosh platforms. Prices start at $56.

Fonts.com now offers a collection of 1,800 Adobe(R) OpenType fonts. Notable designs include the Helvetica (TM), Frutiger(TM) and Gill Sans(R) typeface families. Prices begin at $29.

About Fonts.com

As the Internet's most comprehensive and convenient place to preview, purchase and download fonts, Fonts.com offers single fonts, packages, family volumes and type libraries, including both the Monotype(R) and ITC(R) libraries. Visitors are greeted with clear navigation and multiple search options in addition to articles, tips and techniques. Live customer care representatives are available to assist in identifying and selecting typefaces and to resolve technical issues. Fonts.com also provides information about Monotype Imaging's custom font services.

About Monotype Imaging

Based in Wilmington, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Chicago, Redwood City, Calif., Japan and China, Monotype Imaging provides fonts and font technologies to graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. Formerly Agfa Monotype Corp., the company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging is home to the Monotype typeface library, a collection that includes widely used designs such as the Arial(R), Times New Roman(R) and Gill Sans(R) typeface families. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions for most of the world's written languages. Information about Monotype Imaging and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk.

Helvetica and Frutiger are trademarks of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions, exclusively licensed through Linotype Library GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (C) 2005 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved.