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Monotype

American typesetting and typeface design company
Organization type_foundry Q1583606

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
type foundry, privately held company[4]
Inception
1887[10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1887 GND (DNB) 1931 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Headquarters location
Woburn[5]
Country
United States[3]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata United States GND (DNB) United Kingdom edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Official website
www.monotype.com[12]
Child organization or unit
URW Type Foundry[6]
Copyright representative
reproduction right not represented by CISAC member, Monotype[14][15]
Has works in the collection
Stichting Lettergieten[16]
Industry
pre-press and pre-media services, machinery industry and plant construction[8][9]
Location of formation
Washington, D.C.[11]
Member of
World Wide Web Consortium[2]
Product or material produced
font[13]
Social media followers
22k (21k–22k, n=4)[17][18][19][20]
Stock exchange
Nasdaq[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Monotype en Monotype Imaging Holdings de Monotype Imaging de Monotype Corporation es Monotype Corporation es Agfa Monotype es Monotype Imaging it Agfa Monotype it Monotype it Monotype Imaging Inc. ja Monotype社 ja モノタイプ・イメージング ja モノタイプイメージング ja モノタイプ・コーポレーション ja ランストン・モノタイプ・カンパニー ms Monotype Imaging Holdings nl Monotype Corporation pl Monotyp pt Monotype zh 蒙納公司
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Legal Entity Identifier
5493004GSJ847XVE5S96
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85086981
GND ID
117279-7
BNCF Thesaurus ID
26178
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119801928
Crunchbase organization ID
monotype
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Monotype-Corporation
Facebook username
ByMonotype
Freebase ID
/m/03p3pwx
Instagram username
bymonotype
MobyGames company ID
34649
MobyGames company ID (former scheme)
monotype-imaging-inc
Show all 19 identifiers +7
Museum-digital ID
211215
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007543540305171
NicoNicoPedia ID
monotype
PM20 folder ID
co/063203
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058539307206706
X (Twitter) username
monotype, Monotype
Yale LUX ID
group/7e15f3d8-de15-4cf2-9f77-2c43598fd70f

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ISNIP213
0000 0001 0805 2364 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30may be stale
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
Bronze
41a59441281a5f69… opendata-index.html +10 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
🔗 Connections
← Type foundry 19
Times New Roman, Arial, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Andalé Mono, Bembo, Century Gothic, Johnston +11 more
← Publisher 4
Times New Roman, Verdana, Rockwell, Perpetua
Instance of 2
privately held company, type foundry
← Copyright holder 2
OCR-A, Bell Centennial
Child organization or unit 1
URW Type Foundry
Copyright representative 1
Monotype
Country 1
United States
Headquarters location 1
Woburn
Location of formation 1
Washington, D.C.
Member of 1
World Wide Web Consortium
Owned entities 1
MyFonts
Product or material produced 1
font
Stock exchange 1
Nasdaq
← Copyright representative 1
Monotype
← Parent organization or unit 1
URW Type Foundry
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Summary

Monotype is a type foundry[1].

Related Entities

Nasdaq privately held company United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . monotype.com. monotype.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . zaanserfgoed.nl. Retrieved . zaanserfgoed.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Location of formation → Washington, D.C.
    Headquarters → —
    Headquarters location → Woburn
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