Importing fonts allows you to manage both your non-Monotype fonts and our standard inventory using the same easy-to-use font management dashboard. Learn how to use Monotype Fonts to streamline font sharing and licensing compliance for your imported fonts.
What are imported fonts?
Imported fonts are the fonts that are not part of Monotype Font’s inventories and are used as third-party fonts. It includes the following type of fonts:
Non-Monotype fonts: Fonts purchased from another font foundry
Monotype custom-designed: Fonts custom-designed for your brand by the Monotype Studio
It is easy to identify these fonts as they are denoted by a different icon than Monotype fonts.
Who can import fonts?
Only Company Admins can import fonts and font collections to their Monotype Fonts account. They are responsible for access sharing and license management. Other users can use the Request access button to request access from admins. Importing fonts allows creatives to use the Monotype Desktop App to design with brand new fonts, as well as previously used fonts.
Which font file formats does Monotype Fonts support?
A font format is a font file holding font data. There are three types of font formats such as bitmapped, stroke, and outlined.
Outlined font formats are scalable and widely used. The most commonly used outlined font formats are PostScript, TrueType (.ttf), OpenType (.otf or .ttf), and Web Open Font Format (.woff and .woff2).
You can import the following font file types on Monotype Fonts:
File type | Font format | Full form | Description |
.otf | OTF | OpenType Font | OpenType is the most popular modern file format for fonts. OTF files can also come in a Compact Font Format (CFF) flavor. |
.ttf | TTF | TrueType Font | TrueType file format originated in 1980s. It is still broadly supported in desktop software. |
.woff | WOFF | Web Open Font Format | It is a wrapper format for TrueType and OpenType fonts. It compresses the files and is supported by all modern browsers. |
.woff2 | WOFF2 | Web Open Font Format 2 | WOFF2 is an update to the original WOFF format |
The following file formats are not supported on Monotype Fonts:
PS (.ps) — PostScript desktop font
EOT (.eot) — EOT web font
SVG (.svg) — SVG web font
Note: Before importing your web fonts onto your Monotype Fonts account, please ensure that you are in compliance with the original EULA of these web fonts.
Where can I find and manage imported fonts?
You can manage your imported web fonts alongside your imported desktop fonts from the Imported Fonts page, where they are grouped by family. The icons displayed next to each family name indicate whether that family contains only desktop fonts, only web fonts, or both.
How do I import fonts?
Before importing your web fonts onto your Monotype Fonts account, ensure that you are in compliance with the original EULA of these web fonts.
As a company admin, you can start importing fonts into Monotype Fonts by following the steps below:
Go to Manage > imported fonts to open the Imported fonts page.
Click Import fonts. The Font importer page displays in a new tab.
Drag and drop the font files into the import area or click any of the supported file type format to select and import.
Or click in between the highlighted box and select the downloaded imported font files.
Ensure that you extract the zip file. You can select or drag and drop the entire extracted folder too.
You can upload up to 3,500 font files at once. If you add more than 3500 fonts, the fonts will not be added, and the list will stop behaving as expected. If your list exceeds 3500 fonts, create a new list and add remaining fonts to the new list. You can also contact our support team if you need assistance with importing a much larger collection.
Keep in mind: It’s important to immediately add all the appropriate tags, define access for the fonts, and upload the corresponding license documents as soon as the file upload is complete. Doing so makes it easy to keep track of font installations and sharing in adherence to your license agreements.
The fonts will start uploading and you will get the success message once the upload is complete. The uploaded fonts will also be listed under the imported fonts section of your target account.
Managing access for imported fonts
Follow the steps below to grant or revoke access to sync or download imported fonts for your users or teams.
Granting access
Click on the Access column in a family row. This field indicates the number of users that have access to the font.
The Who has access (a share access dialog box) displays.
You can grant access to multiple users and teams at once. You can also search for users and teams by name.
You can also grant access to a third-party font or family to your entire company by enabling the Give access to entire company field.
Make the desired changes and click Update to grant access to the selected users or team.
You can also grant access to individual fonts by expanding a family row, clicking on the number field in a font row under the Access column, and following the steps outlined above.
Revoking access
Similar to the steps outlined above, in the Access column, start by clicking on the number field in a font or family row to bring up the share access dialog.
Users and teams with access to the font or family are denoted by a checkmark next to their names.
Hover over the checkmark to switch it to a cross icon, as shown below. Click on this to revoke access for the selected user or team.
Click Update.
In the Docs column, click on the + button in a family row. This will launch the file browser on your system for you to locate license documents.
Once uploaded, your documents are displayed in the family row under the Docs column, as shown below:
You can click on the paperclip icon to either download or delete a supporting document, as shown below:
You can also upload supporting documents pertinent to individual fonts by expanding a family row, clicking on the + button in a font row, and following the steps outlined above.
You may upload up to five supporting documents per family. You may also upload up to five documents per font. Document uploads are limited to a maximum file size of 20 MB per document, and accepted file formats are PDF (.pdf), TXT (.txt), ODT (.odt), JPG/JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), PNG (.png), TIFF (.tiff), XLS/XLSX (.xls/.xlsx) and XML (.xml).
How can I use imported web fonts in a project?
You can add imported web fonts to web projects and digital ads.
Users must be given the right access to imported web fonts before they can add these fonts to a web project or a digital ad. Users without access will be shown a "permission required" alert when they attempt to add an imported web font to a web project, with the option to request access.
Once an imported web font is added to a web project or a digital ad, it can be subsetted according to your needs and then used on your website along with other web fonts from Monotype using an embed code or via a self-hosting kit.
How does tagging work with imported fonts?
The Font Importer automatically tags fonts by style and language and groups them by family, so they’re well organized and ready for use in your "Imported Fonts" dashboard.
You may also choose to add private tags to your fonts from the font uploader screen, once importing finishes. To do this, click on the Add tags button in the top-right corner.
This will change the uploaded fonts view to show a Bulk add tags button in addition to showing + icon buttons next to each uploaded font.
As the name suggests, clicking on the Bulk add tags button allows you to add tags to all uploaded font files, all at once.
Clicking on the + icon buttons next to each individual font will allow you to add tags specific to these individual font files. You can add private tags specific to individual fonts in addition to bulk tags.
To learn more about font tagging, click here.