OpenType Trend: Monotype Reports Demand Up By Almost Half

Typefounder suggests OT fonts getting ever more popular

As we move foreward into the typographic future it would seem that the OpenType format is going over well.

In a survey distruibuted to 7,000 customers, data gathered from 1st quarter 2004 through 1st quarter 2005 and again from 4th quarter 2005 through 1st quarter 2006, that asked the question “which format do you prefer?”, showed an increase of 49%, and cited figures showing an increase of 168% on OpenType sales through fonts.com.

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Typefounder suggests OT fonts getting ever more popular

As we move foreward into the typographic future it would seem that the OpenType format is going over well.

In a survey distruibuted to 7,000 customers, data gathered from 1st quarter 2004 through 1st quarter 2005 and again from 4th quarter 2005 through 1st quarter 2006, that asked the question “which format do you prefer?”, showed an increase of 49%, and cited figures showing an increase of 168% on OpenType sales through fonts.com.

This is no doubt welcome news to the typefounders who have moved thier inventories into OT as well as the sofware engineers crafting programs that use the increasingly popular format.

Read the entire press release at Monotype Imaging.

(via Microsoft Typography)

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