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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the British typeface designer’s most famous fonts, Gill Sans and Joanna, aren’t just better than ever. They’ve given birth. First created by famed British typeface designer Eric Gill in 1928, ...

"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 ...

You see his company’s creation every time you switch on the screen of your personal computer and whenever you send a document to a laser printer. He’s an FOB, friend of Bill. Gates, that is. But ...

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 ...