Using a Monotype Library Subscription Installing Fonts Prepare to lose even more hours browsing for The Perfect Font (and don’t say I didn’t warn you). If you’re a freelancer or small design shop, that “Can we afford it?” conversation goes away completely, just as it does with Typekit. Having your choice from some of the most important font collections in the world, without having to pile costs onto the client’s bill (or work them into the pricing of a project), is kind of a big deal. Then there’s Avenir, Frutiger, Univers, FF Din and Din Next, Trade Gothic, Sabon, Gill, Avant Garde, Stone… it’s a long, long list. Figure that the Helvetica and Neue Helvetica families alone will set you back nearly $2,000 if you buy the complete family packs.
#Momotype subscription install#
So I happily plonked down $120 for a year’s access to (as of this writing) 2,148 type families, comprising 9,000 or so fonts: the entire Monotype, Linotype, ITC, Bitstream, and Ascender libraries, ready to install for full desktop and web use. While Monotype has long had the Skyfonts subscription service for web use, they hadn’t got off the ground with a decent desktop offering, so this was a positive sign.Ī few months later, the Monotype Library Subscription service launched on, just as I needed some Neue Helvetica weights I didn’t already own. In August of last year, I got a “Dear Customer” email from Linotype with a link to an online survey about font subscriptions. As a follow-up, I spent an hour or so on Skype giving my opinion on various ways that a large font library might be made available as a subscription for desktop use. A list of “Alternatives to Helvetica” isn’t much use if your client’s identity program or style guide requires Helvetica. That semibold font you need might be “web only,” while its regular weight is available for desktop use, and there are many important typefaces that aren’t part of Typekit at all. Creative Cloud users already have Typekit, which just got a huge boost with the addition of the Émigré library. Love them or hate them, subscriptions and cloud-based services are here to stay. There are folks who won’t go there under any circumstances, and I understand and respect their views, but the benefits are starting to pile up pretty high.
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