Ascender is now part of Monotype Imaging
We are proud to announce that on December 8, 2010 Ascender Corp. was acquired by Monotype Imaging. This acquisition significantly extends the range of premium quality typefaces and font technology products we offer and expands our design and development capabilities. Read more about the Monotype Imaging announcement.
Monotype Imaging is proud to offer custom fonts, multilingual Unicode fonts, Microsoft fonts, legibility fonts, fonts for branding identity and font licensing solutions including web fonts.
We also offer a variety of developer tools including font rendering technology, UI development tools, text layout software, printer driver development kits and printer fonts & rasterizer technology,
Key Products & Services
Microsoft Fonts
Monotype Imaging is proud to offer Microsoft® fonts for license to enterprises and software & hardware developers, and also as downloadable fonts for end-users. Microsoft's fonts are highly regarded for their on-screen quality and extensive character sets.
Multilingual Fonts and Unicode-compliant fonts
Monotype Imaging provides multilingual, Unicode® based font solutions for all the world’s languages. Monotype Imaging has helped Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, PeopleSoft, Sybase and many others with their Unicode font solutions.
Droid Fonts
Monotype Imaging developed the Droid fonts for the Android mobile platform. Learn more about how Monotype Imaging can enhance the Droid fonts for developers.
Server & Web Application Fonts
Monotype Imaging offers an extensive font collection to developers for server-based applications. Monotype Imaging's fonts can be licensed for use with web-apps and servers.
Custom & Bespoke Fonts
The Monotype Imaging team understands that not every font problem can be solved with an off-the-shelf solution. Monotype Imaging's talented type designers and font software engineers create custom TrueType and OpenType® format fonts for customers world wide.
Web Fonts
New techniques and technologies allow web designers to expand their typographic palette. Monotype Imaging now offers an innovative solution for delivering web fonts to the latest versions of all web browsers!
Monotype Imaging is pleased to partner with the Font Bureau to offer web fonts for use with @font-face through Webtype.com. Learn more