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One single agreement, all of Monotype.
A lot has changed in the type industry over the past few years. Today there are more font customers, more foundries, and more ways to sell fonts than ever before. But all this complexity can make it difficult to connect with customers and grow your business. Our distribution agreement makes things simple, matches the way fonts are sold today, and enables foundries to license fonts at scale.
Foundry Program.
By signing this agreement, you're part of the foundry program. This means you get full access to the foundry platform, with all the new business analytics, marketing, and foundry branding features as soon as they're available, and have increased visibility on our sites. Additionally, you'll be able to qualify to be on the foundry advisory board and other programs like this that we will be rolling out. Learn more about the benefits of the foundry program.
Monotype Fonts.
By signing this agreement, your fonts are included in Monotype Fonts. Monotype Fonts (formerly called Mosaic) is our platform for font discovery and licensing for agencies and enterprise customers. We’ve reinvented the customer experience to solve the most frustrating aspects of shopping for fonts and to reduce the confusion and complexity of font licensing. Monotype Fonts enables designers to design and prototype with a broad selection of fonts.
Check out this video that explains Monotype Fonts and our Monotype Fonts FAQs.
We are celebrating the addition of new fonts and foundries in Monotype Fonts to customers and users in the Monotype Fonts platform, in social media campaigns, in emails to Monotype Fonts users, and at upcoming design events.
E-commerce reach.
Our agreement allows your fonts to be sold on our e-commerce channel, MyFonts. By leveraging the enhanced foundry platform features to promote and market your foundry, you'll reach a wide range of potential customers.
Enterprise sales.
This agreement allows our global sales teams to sell your fonts to enterprise clients. Our sales teams have developed strong relationships over many years with companies around the world and across virtually every industry. With this agreement, they’ll be able to offer your fonts to these clients too. These orders are more time consuming and thus fewer in number than e-commerce orders, but they are far more lucrative.
Licensing enforcement.
This agreement allows us to enforce your IP rights with clients who may have been under-licensed in the past. Our research, sales, and legal teams are experts at working with brands to address past misuse. They are adept at transforming what could be uncomfortable, even contentious situations into long-lasting relationships, leading to font renewals and additional licensing in the future. Check out this short video explaining how Monotype approaches font licensing.
Royalties.
Our simple royalty structure is designed to match how we do business today and provide clarity and certainty for foundries: 50% for your fonts sold on myfonts.com, and 25% for everything else. There are no additional costs. The 25% rate covers Monotype Fonts, orders sold by our enterprise sales teams, and any revenue from enforcement-related orders. These orders have a lower royalty rate because they are more complicated, expensive, and time consuming to conduct.
Co-marketing.
Beyond the distribution of your fonts, this agreement opens up a range of co-marketing opportunities we can explore with you. As a foundry partner, you can take part in Monotype’s in-person and virtual events, co-create promotions and content, and leverage our social media channels to expand your audience. By advocating for the value of type design, Monotype, foundries, and end-user designers all benefit together.
World-class support.
Monotype’s foundry support team has over 100 years of collective experience researching, merchandising, marketing, selling, designing, and studying fonts. They’re to help you grow your business with personalized guidance, research about font customers, and foundry management tools.
Additional components of the agreement.
Mutual NDA:
The new agreement includes a mutual NDA. This enables us to share a lot more with you, like roadmaps for Foundry Platform, MyFonts, and Monotype Fonts, and other business information about Monotype. Plus it’s mutual, which means you have confidence we can’t share your business information with others.
Standard non-solicit:
We want to help you grow your business and are investing in education and tools to directly help you grow your earnings. We're in this together, so simply put, be a good partner and don't solicit any Monotype employees or other partners.
Release all your fonts with us:
Being in the program means that if you’re working with us, customers can find all of your fonts in our channels. We want customers to be able to purchase fonts wherever makes the most sense for them, and as we represent you as your partner, we need to be able to give customers the confidence that they’ll be able to browse all of your publicly available fonts in our ecosystem.
Notify us if your business changes:
If your business is changing materially, let us know at least 90 days in advance. For example: if you intend to offer your fonts in a subscription offering, or if you intend to sell your foundry. This is for our awareness so we can be the best partner possible and appropriately plan for any additional work on our end to accommodate your upcoming business changes.
Font modifications:
You give us the right to modify your fonts according to our modifications policy – we need this for simple things like our sites automatically generating webfonts and occasionally modifications for customers. We follow a comprehensive modification policy, and we work directly with foundries when these situations arise. As always, you own any fonts that are modified.
As always, if there's anything in the agreement that you have questions about or want more information, don't hesitate to reach us at foundrysupport@monotype.com or email us through the blue support button in the bottom right corner here in the Foundry Help Center.
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