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Terrance Weinzierl, Executive Creative Director at Monotype, recently joined hosts Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, and Jason English on the podcast Very Special Episodes to talk about the history and legacy of one of the most misunderstood fonts: Comic Sans®. Terrance has a great appreciation for the typeface — when Comic Sans received an expansion and a refresh in 2011 with Comic Sans Pro, the two new italic and bold italic fonts in the family were drawn by Terrance. Hear from Terrance and others to get a new perspective on the renowned typeface Comic Sans on Very Special Episodes.

As a product manager, Sneha Banerjee spends her days fixing problems and fine‑tuning the Monotype website so that visitors can find what they need. With a background in engineering, and a bit of problem-solving magic, she brings clarity to challenges that users may face. Based in Delhi, India, she recently celebrated three years with Monotype. Outside of work, you’ll find her spending time with her 6-year-old daughter in some of Delhi’s best green spaces, like Sundar Nursey and Prerna Sthal, or curled up at home with a book or movie. Read on to learn more about Sneha.

Monotype Imaging Inc. today announced the appointment of Karen Brewer as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Karen joins Monotype with more than 25 years of experience leading marketing, growth, and go-to-market strategy for some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Adobe, Autodesk, and Cisco. Throughout her career, Karen has helped these organizations strengthen their market position, accelerate growth, and build high-performing marketing teams.

“Typography never sleeps.” In his piece for Transform Magazine, Senior Executive Creative Director at Monotype Charles Nix reflects on what it actually means to maintain a brand system at scale, and why the goal was never perfection in the first place. What Charles argues for is visibility. Counting and qualifying fonts, mapping typographic workflows, auditing governance models, assessing brand assets. It’s all essential for managing typography and brand systems well.

There is a social contract that connects brands and consumers. Brands that consistently show up, and own up when they make mistakes, are more likely to attract loyal customers. This is because trust is the highest representation of brand value. Read more from Monotype’s VP of Client Engagement & Growth Bill Connolly in his latest piece with the Rolling Stone Culture Council on brands, trust, and how AI tools fit into the equation.

Monotype® has launched the MyFonts app in ChatGPT, bringing professional font discovery into a conversational AI environment where creative decisions are increasingly being made. By connecting the MyFonts® app in ChatGPT®, designers, marketers, and creative teams can now explore type conversationally using plain language to describe their creative needs and receive real, licensable font recommendations without leaving the AI tool where their ideas are already taking shape. The integration is available now on ChatGPT in the United States, powered by Monotype’s library of over 250,000 fonts.

AI is transforming creative work, speeding up creative workflows, while also exposing what still requires human expertise. AI is a great iterator, but not a replacement for creative judgement. The decisions that shape a brand — proportion, personality, cultural context, and consistency — still require a human eye. And as organizations use AI to create content at a greater scale, strong typographic systems are becoming more important than ever. In an article for TechRadar Pro, Phil Garnham, Executive Creative Director at Monotype, explores how AI and design can work together and why typography is increasingly a strategic business consideration.

Monotype Imaging Inc. today launched Gotham® Variable, a major evolution of the iconic Gotham typeface, introducing continuous control across weight and width in a single, performance-optimized file. Available now on Monotype Fonts™, Monotype Connect™, and MyFonts®, Gotham Variable transforms a modern typographic classic into a dynamic design system built for how brands, products, and experiences are designed today.

In this recurring feature in our “Fonts Having a Moment” series, we’ll be exploring cities around the world through the dual lenses of culture and typography, guided by our friends at Monotype and some of our partner foundries. Join us on this exciting virtual journey! This time, get to know Jakarta, Indonesia with Gumpita Rahayu of Tokotype.