Monotype Companions With Google To Convey New Design Device To Internet Font Clients

Monotype integrates the free public model of its typecast design software with the Google Fonts web site to assist designers create lovely, readable net content material.

WOBURN, Mass., October 31, 2013 – Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a number one supplier of typefaces, expertise and experience for inventive functions and client gadgets, has established itself related to Google to encourage inventive experimentation in net design. A brand new free public model of Monotype’s Typecast ™ app is now obtainable by means of Google Fonts, serving to customers create higher net typography.

“Nice design begins with nice typography, and quick access to textual content is crucial for inventive expression,” stated Chris Roberts, vice chairman and basic supervisor of Monotype’s e-commerce group. “Our aim is to make designing with net fonts extra accessible to everybody. So we’ve partnered with Google to succeed in extra designers. Those that are presently utilizing Google’s free font library to offer extra selection in typography on the internet will now have the ability to work with these typefaces extra simply and create beautiful, readable compositions in a fraction of the time. “

“Selecting a font in isolation, with out the context of the content material or different textual content, is a tough activity,” stated Filip Zembowicz, product supervisor at Google. “The Typecast design software makes it simple to try to experiment with font associations from the Google Fonts listing.”

The award-winning premium model of the Typecast app permits for typographic experimentation with out the necessity for hand-coding or costly design software program. On this new public model, customers can choose any font from the Google Fonts web site after which observe the hyperlink to the Typecast app. From there, designers can work with this font (and the complete Google Fonts library) on textual content of any size and use a variety of textual content controls to create clear, readable textual content techniques with changes comparable to font measurement, line thickness, and line spacing. Designers can even work with net fonts side-by-side to rapidly see at a look what works and what does not. Customers can create extra sensible compositions with floats, erasures, margins, and fill controls, and quite a lot of results can be found comparable to background colours, borders, and textual content shadows. On this free model of the Typecast app, a person’s work might be exported as HTML and CSS, or PNG recordsdata, prepared for manufacturing, sharing with others, or merging into compositions.

“I’m delighted that followers of Google Fonts can now use this new free model of the Typecast app,” stated Paul McKeever, director of Typecast. “Google’s service is extremely fashionable, and lots of designers’ first expertise with net fonts is made doable by their free library. In our drive to encourage better use of net fonts on-line and to offer a brand new Google Fonts is the proper associate to entry the Typecast app, and we hope our free public model will encourage extra typeface followers and, over time, extra typography advocates.

Monotype’s premium model of its Typecast app begins at $ 29 monthly. Google customers can improve at any time to take full benefit of the 1000’s of different fonts obtainable within the app, together with fonts from Fonts.com Internet Fonts, Typekit, Webtype, and Fontdeck. The premium model additionally permits customers to save lots of their work, put up designs to a URL for sharing and testing on gadgets, and create a method information for initiatives with only one click on.

Extra details about the Typecast app and Google Fonts is obtainable at http://typecast.com/google-fonts.