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Brand Connector for agencies

Learn to use brand connector to share a font list from Monotype Fonts with an outside agency so their team can use your brand fonts inside Monotype Connect.

Written by Supriya Bisht

Brand Connector allows an agency to share a brand’s font libraries with brand partners. Agencies initiate the process by sending their brand partners an authorized share token. The brand then activates the sharing connection with the supplied agency token.

Applies to: Any company on Monotype Fonts with font list sharing rights and any agency on Monotype Connect with Monotype Connect for Agencies account.

Scope: Only font lists in My Library (Monotype Fonts).

This article explains the Brand Connector and how to use it. It includes:

How Brand Connector works

Brand Connector links your Monotype Fonts account to your agency's Monotype Connect for Agencies account.

You set up the connection once. After that, sharing additional font lists with the same agency takes only a few clicks. This helps an agency and its team to use your brand fonts (from Monotype Fonts) inside Monotype Connect without handing over your library or losing control of it.

The process involves two user roles:

  • Brand admin (you): shares font lists from Monotype Fonts and stays in control.

  • Agency admin: receives the shared font lists in Monotype Connect and assigns fonts to their team.

Note: No extra authentication or additional logins are needed. Any company on Monotype Fonts with font list sharing rights can use Brand Connector to receive the shared font lists in Monotype Connect.

Prerequisites

Since Brand Connector links two separate accounts, both accounts must already be set up and ready-to-use. Before you start using Brand Connector, ensure that the following requirements are met.

  • A font list exists in My Library
    Brand Connector supports sharing font lists only. Web projects, digital ad packages, and folders cannot be shared.

  • The agency has a Monotype Connect for Agencies account
    The agency must have an active account to receive the shared font list.

  • You have the agency's Unique ID
    The Unique ID serves as the agency's share token. An agency administrator can generate it in Monotype Connect > Font Libraries > Shared Libraries > Create Share Token and provide it to you via email or chat.

Complete Brand Connector workflow

The table below shows every action for both sides (Monotype Fonts and Monotype Connect) in order. Use it to coordinate with your agency. It shows how Monotype Fonts (brand admin) and Monotype Connect for Agencies (agency admin) work together.

Monotype Fonts

brand admin

Monotype Connect for Agencies

agency admin

Phase 1

Initial setup (done once)

Waiting for Unique ID from agency admin

Step 1 — Generate a share token

  • Go to Font Libraries › Shared Libraries

  • Select Create Share Token

  • Send Unique ID to brand admin by email or chat

◀ Unique ID sent to brand admin

Phase 2: Share the font list (brand side)

Step 1 — Open the font list

  • Go to My Library in the left sidebar

  • Open the font list you want to share

  • Select Share access above the list

No action required

Step 2 — Select the agency tab

  • Dialog opens on Within Company tab by default

  • Select the With Monotype Connect Agency tab

No action required

Step 3A — Invite a new agency

  • Find the Invite via Unique ID field

  • Paste the Unique ID the agency sent you

  • Select Invite agency

    Note: One agency at a time. The agency must have a
    ​Monotype Connect for Agencies account.

No action required

Step 3B — Give access (connected agency)

  • Agency already appears in the list

  • Hover their name and select + (Give Access)

Tip: You can share the same list with multiple connected agencies.

No action required

Step 4 — Confirm the share

Select Update to confirm.

✓ Font list is now shared with the agency

No action required

▶ Shared font list appears in Monotype Connect

Phase 3

Assign fonts to the team (agency side)

No action required

Step 1: Find the shared library

  • Open Monotype Connect

  • Go to Font Libraries › Shared Libraries

  • Brand's font list appears ready to assign

No action required

Step 2: Assign font list to a team

  • Select the shared font list

  • Assign it to a team (read-only access)

  • Add users to that team

✓ Users can now view and sync brand fonts

Phase 4: Removing agency

Removing user's access

Remove a specific agency

  • Open font list in My Library

  • Select Share access › With Monotype Connect Agency tab

  • Select Remove the agency to end the access immediately

Remove a user's access

Remove user from the assigned team to end their access.

Remove all agency access

Delete the font list from My Library. Every agency loses access automatically.

No action needed. Access ends automatically when the brand removes the list.

Remove access to selected fonts

Brand can remove selected fonts from shared Font Lists and they will be removed from the Agency side.

No action needed. Access ends automatically when the brand removes the fonts from the shared font list.

Tip

If you are an agency admin, refer to Brand Connector — Monotype Connect for full guide covering Connect to Connect brand connection relationships, token generation, assigning libraries to teams, and managing access.

What the agency can and cannot do

Shared font lists are read-only for agencies. Agencies can view and use the fonts, but only the list owner can make changes. So you as a brand admin keep full control at all times.

✓ The agency can

✗ The agency cannot

  • View the shared font list

  • Sync and use the fonts

  • Assign the list to its own teams (read-only)

  • Edit or rename the list

  • Add, remove, or move fonts

  • Delete the list

  • Reshare it with anyone else outside the company

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