Ancestors

Written by Thomas Phinney, Font Detective on 2024-11-18 at 21:38

So, Monotype bought Extensis for their font/asset management (makers of Connect—used to be called Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type server) https://www.monotype.com/company/press-release/monotype-announces-acquisition-extensis

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Toot

Written by Andrew Boardman on 2024-11-18 at 22:12

@tphinney Oy. More fontopoly. What will it mean for designers?

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Descendants

Written by Thomas Phinney, Font Detective on 2024-11-18 at 22:41

Extensis Connect is marketed & designed to help users stay in compliance with their font licenses. But it still may not be in the best interests of users for their server-based license/usage tracking tool to be owned by Monotype, the dominant retailer/distributor of font licenses.

Before they killed FontExplorer, you might have thought that being owned by Monotype/Linotype made it more likely to survive. But obviously that did not happen.

So, this acquisition is not great news for end users.

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Written by Andrew Boardman on 2024-11-19 at 02:41

@tphinney Makes sense. I was an extensive user of Extensis back in the day. I am finding The Monopoly increasingly worrying and frustrating. These platforms are not serving designers better with each successive acquisition.

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