Also known as third party fonts. Indicates the fonts that you require in addition to the fonts included in your base inventory.

This feature allows you to search a font either by entering its name, tag, family, foundry, or image. It also shows the recommended and recent search.

Indicates a filter that narrow downs search results by type features, such as alternates, fractions, kerning, ligatures, numerical alternates, shaping, small capitals, and spacing.

Alternates are different shapes of glyphs for the same character in a typeface. For example, small caps, swash characters, contextual alternates, case-sensitive forms, etc.

Filter (search criteria) used to browse the entire Monotype Fonts library and refine your font search results. Monotype Fonts platform has the following filters:

1. Monotype tags

2. Style

3. Variable fonts

4. Visual properties

5. Language

6. Foundry

7. Sources

8. Advanced typography

CCJK fonts support the character sets of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language. These font styles come with a very high glyph and character support. The production font count of CCJK fonts can be more than one depending on your region.

All the CCJK fonts have a star icon and belong to CCJK font tier. You can hover over the star icon to know the production font count of these fonts.

See Font tier

Custom fonts are unique fonts that are either created (bespoke) or customized (modification of existing font) by Monotype Studio team for specific users based on their Monotype Fonts agreement.

A quick way to save font families or styles for later use. Favorites are private to the user.

Folders help to organize font lists, web projects and digital ads. You can have nested folders.

Note: You cannot add fonts directly to a folder. Create a font list, web project, or digital ads to add them in the folder.

A collection of letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols used to set text (or related) matter. Although font and typeface are often used interchangeably, font refers to the physical embodiment (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) while typeface refers to the design (the way it looks). A font is what you use, and a typeface is what you see.

Services provided by font providers (such as Monotype, Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and foundries) or platforms (such as Monotype Fonts). These services allow developers to access and integrate fonts into their websites or applications programmatically. See Monotype APIs.

Selected users with license can download and install individual font files or variable fonts to their workstations for use in their projects.

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

A font format is a font file holding font data. There are three types of font formats, 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).

A font license (also known as EULA or end-user license agreement) is a legally binding document authorizing you to use font software under pre-defined conditions.

font lists List of fonts grouped together for desktop use and team sharing.

Font pairing is the art of combining two or more fonts that create a harmonious, stylish, readable, and well-balanced design.

Font pairing plays a crucial role in achieving visual appeal and readability for your creative project (such as logo, poster, flyer, invitation, social media post, website, book, journal, or presentation) that contains text.

A font subscription service simplifies the process of font discovery, use, and licensing. When you subscribe to Monotype Fonts, you will get a license for all the fonts in the Monotype Fonts' library.

Syncing is the primary method of accessing fonts by transferring fonts from the browser dashboard to the Monotype Desktop application. The synced fonts and font families are automatically accessible in most creative applications. There is no need for users to download individual font files.

Font tags are a convenient tool for organizing the company fonts. Tags can either be public or private.

Private tags are custom tags that can be added by a company admin to fonts and families as an advanced filtering option. These tags are private, meaning they are only visible to users in your company. Users will see them when searching for fonts, on family and font pages, etc.

Public tags are visible to everyone. The Monotype team adds public tags to font families to help other users navigate the Monotype Fonts library.

Font tiering is Monotype’s unique approach to categorize and organize its vast font inventory for better identification of the type of font (such as standard, variable, or CCJK) used by our customers. These fonts (except the standard fonts) are marked by the star icon .

The star icon shows that these fonts have a unique characteristic/attribute that makes them distinct from the standard fonts. And the production font count of these starred fonts can be more than one.

All the Monotype Fonts are structured based on the following three font tiers:

A process used by Monotype Fonts to identify and report any unlicensed and inconsistent use of fonts. It helps you to protect your brand and avoid licensing infringement.

A company or individual designer who creates and distributes digital or physical fonts and typefaces. These foundries design and produce fonts for various platforms, such as print, web, or mobile applications.

A fraction feature enables the dynamic creation of composed fractions from numbers and the slash or fraction character. Available fractions through this feature can vary from one font family to other, but may include either diagonal fractions or stacked fractions.

A font that can be downloaded and used without paying any licensing fee.

Note: Some free fonts are not actually free. They may be free for personal use but they often require additional licensing for commercial use.

Third party fonts that you want to import into Monotype Fonts. It includes the following types of fonts:

The built-in spacing of a typeface is intended to produce an even texture in any letter combination. Certain combinations, like LT, VA or To tend to look gappy and loose with the default built-in spacing. Kerning is an additional adjustment to those problem pairs that corrects the excess or inadequate space.

Indicates the language search filter. Select a language to view the typefaces available in your preferred language.

Special glyphs that are actually two or more letters combined into one. In cases where two adjacent characters would normally bump into each other, a ligature allows the letters to flow together more gracefully. This usually makes word shapes more aesthetically pleasing. Some common ligatures are ‘fi’, ‘fl’, ‘ff’, ‘ffl’, etc.

Monotype Desktop App allows you to detect missing fonts within your document.

If a missing font is detected, the Monotype Fonts library is checked for availability of the missing font. If available on the Monotype Fonts website, you can quickly sync the fonts to your computer and restore the appearance of your document.

Application installed on your computer to simplify font management and eliminate the need to manually look for missing fonts.

Note: It is important to download and install the Monotype Desktop app on your computer to sync the fonts and families from the Monotype Fonts platform.

A global typography hub that offers access to the world's most vast and diverse font library, intuitive license and font management, web font hosting, font deployment and AI backed search and discovery.

The tags generated through Monotype’s proprietary AI classification engine. These tags are created based on popular user requests.

Maximum number of times the HTML5 digital ads containing the font can show up on people's screens.

Note: This may vary depending on your subscription plan and its associated license. Contact customer support to know more about this.

The maximum number of times the webpage(s) containing the font can load on people’s devices.

Note: This may vary depending on your subscription plan and its associated license. Contact customer support to know more about this.

A Monotype Fonts feature that allows you to organize, curate, and share your fonts with your team. You have total control on your library and it can be synced to your Monotype Fonts desktop app.

One of Monotype’s digital commerce websites, where 230,000+ individual fonts are available for licensing.

Numbers can come in multiple styles that vary in their widths or heights. Height variations are either lining or old style, and widths are either tabular or proportional. Available alternates can vary from font family to font family.

A production font is a font that is utilized for a purpose described by a license that you hold for the font. For example, this could be a font that is utilized under a desktop license, on a web page, or within a software application.

Also known as users. This is the number of team members who can access Monotype Fonts library.

Shaping refers to the presence of OpenType Layout tables that enable a variety of typographic functionality. For example, certain scripts like Arabic or Devanagari require different shapes of characters depending upon their context (placement within a word). Shaping can also refer to support of dynamic mark placement (arbitrary accented characters), connected scripts and more.

This icon displays in My Library. It indicates the number of users that have access to these fonts.

Click this to share the font library with all existing and new company users.

Small caps are capital letters that are approximately as high as the x-height of the lowercase letters. When properly designed small caps are absent in the selected font, many applications can create small caps by scaling down the capitals. However this makes these fake small caps too light and narrow, and they don’t harmonize properly with the lowercase. Originally small caps were only available for the roman text weight(s), but nowadays many type families also have them for the italic styles and full range of weights.

The Capital Spacing feature in OpenType increases the default spacing between characters when setting all capital letters for better rhythm and legibility.

Indicates Single Sign On that ensures a unified and secure experience for users.

Any font that does not have a star icon belongs to a standard tier and is counted as one production font.

See Font tier

A typeface style.

In typography, a font superfamily or typeface superfamily is a font family containing fonts that fall into multiple classifications.

Superfamilies may include fonts grouped together for a common purpose that are not exactly complementary in letterform structure.

If your Monotype Fonts plan includes swappable fonts, it means you can swap out your commercial production fonts once per quarter (every three months) with fonts within the same tier.

Fonts synced to your machines using Monotype Desktop App.

A type is a character or letter that is printed or shown on a screen.

List of pangrams in 39 languages that allows you to test the type for all the letters available in the preferred language.

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.

A variable font is a single compressed font file that includes a range of font variations (such as width, weight, slant, and other attributes). All the variable fonts belong to variable font tier and are marked with a star icon .

These font styles are flexible and dynamic in nature. A variable font in commercial use is equivalent to five production fonts.

See Font tier

Specify desired weight, width, x-height, contrast, and slant.

Web projects are similar to font lists, but they can be deployed online with tracking.

A font identification tool developed by Monotype for instant automated identification of the font used in a photograph, scan, or artwork.