A friend introduced Winifred “Winnie” (Gray) Bixler ’69 (art and design) to Michael Bixler ’69 (printing) when they were juniors at RIT’s downtown Rochester campus. They went to an old, nearby ...

After rolling up the business of selling fonts, Monotype Imaging has announced that it is exiting the public market, accepting an offer from private equity firm HGGC. This highly profitable business ...

First created by famed British typeface designer Eric Gill in 1928, Gill Sans has been used over the years by everyone from the BBC to Ferris Bueller. Its most iconic use, though, is probably on the ...

<ul><li><strong>Location: </strong>Based in Wilmington, Mass.; offices in Chicago; Palo Alto, Calif.; Boulder, Colo.; London; Hong Kong; and Tokyo Location: Based in ...

Digital typesetting and typeface design company Monotype has acquired Olapic, a user-generated content (UGC) startup, for approximately $130 million. The acquisition will enable Monotype to leverage ...

"Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded by Tolbert Lanston in Washington D.C., USA, in 1887. Lanston had a patented mechanical method of punching out metal types from cold strips of metal which ...

Every imaginable portable electronic device is scattered around Geoffrey Greve’s office. IPads, iPods, iPhones, Androids, Nooks, Kindles, and a host of other tablets, laptops, and cellphones. “I ...