Monotype partners with Sharp Type to add 27 font families to library

Sharp Type – nan proprietor of well-known fonts specified arsenic Ogg, Sharp Grotesk, Sharp Sans, and Centra – has sold 27 fonts from its existent room to typography elephantine Monotype.

Following nan sale, Sharp Type will proceed its innovative independent work, creating original, unique designs that are utilized by globally renowned designers and world-class brands.

The postulation includes superfamilies specified arsenic Sharp Sans, Sharp Grotesk Global, and Beatrice. Fonts that Sharp Type retains aft nan waste will besides beryllium accessible done nan Monotype Fonts subscription service.

Lucas Sharp, co-founder of Sharp Type, says: "We are honoured that Monotype has offered to beryllium nan steward and benefactor of this bequest postulation of Sharp Type fonts. We person been blessed to activity pinch an incredibly talented squad of workplace members and collaborators to build this collection, and we are proud to witnesser its effect connected nan artistic civilization of our time.

"This business allows america to put nan entirety of our attraction connected our caller imaginative pursuits, wherever our passions genuinely lie, and time off nan attraction of this postulation successful nan tin hands of Monotype."

Sharp Grotesque

Sharp Grotesque

Beatrice

Sharp Sans

Sharp Type will besides beryllium promoted arsenic a premier partner done a Monotype subscription, and its remaining room of fonts will beryllium disposable done Sharp Type's ain website.

The waste represents an breathtaking opportunity for Sharp Type's co-founders – hubby and woman duo Lucas Sharp and Chantra Malee – to displacement their foundry's attraction towards nan expansive caller projects they person coming up successful 2024 – including ambitious, multilingual and multiscript superfamilies – and move distant from nan time-intensive activity of maintaining nan room of fonts that person to day driven nan mostly of nan company's gross since its 2015 founding.

Sharp Type views nan waste arsenic an breathtaking show of Monotype's support of nan independent type creation community, demonstrating that independent foundries for illustration Sharp Type tin activity pinch Monotype to their use and still clasp their independency and imaginative integrity.

The institution will proceed to create historically conscious, deliberately original typefaces that are utilized globally by renowned designers and world-class brands specified arsenic Dropbox and Samsung.

It was only December past twelvemonth erstwhile Monotype acquired nan award-winning Colophon Foundry and its room of 85 fonts.