Monotype Imaging Debuts ESQ Mobile Brand and Over 200 Mobile Phone Fonts.

Growing Selection from Monotype, Linotype and ITC Libraries Target Mobile Phone Font Requirements

LONDON & WOBURN, Mass. -- Monotype Imaging Inc., a global leader in font and imaging technologies, is launching its ESQ([R]) Mobile brand of fonts through the introduction of more than 200 designs tailored for exceptional viewing on mobile phones. The latest selection builds upon the company's 13 fonts released in June as the industry's first typeface collection that enables developers, content providers, wireless operators and handset manufacturers to enhance mobile products through scalable, stylistic fonts.

"Typefaces have always served as powerful design elements in the desktop world, and now that same advantage is transcending to the cell phone industry," said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging Inc. "Whether the mobile phone is targeted to sports enthusiasts or business professionals, or whether content is geared to teenagers or older adults, the right fonts lend personality while being aesthetically pleasing. Fonts have the power to connect personally with the user."

"The benefits of our ESQ Mobile font collection go far beyond the expanding range of designs," said John Seguin, executive vice president and general manager of Monotype Imaging's Display Imaging group. "ESQ fonts must live up to their name - Enhanced Screen Quality - which involves character fine-tuning and testing to ensure readability at various sizes on cell phone screens. In some cases, design complexity may require additional hand-tuning by typographic specialists in order to legibly display text at small sizes. Market segments involving multimedia content and services, Web browsing, e-mail, mobile applications, games, advertising, user interface development or text-dependent content will benefit from our readily available fonts engineered for high-quality display on mobile phones."

Monotype Imaging's ESQ Mobile fonts are derived from the company's Monotype([R]) and ITC([R]) font libraries, in addition to new selections from the Linotype Library. "Through our acquisition of Linotype Library GmbH, we're now able to provide the mobile world with choice designs from one of the most prestigious typeface collections ever assembled," Haley said. "This is one of our first collaborative projects with Linotype that will ultimately benefit our mobile customers. They'll now have access to designs from a resource that had traditionally served creative professionals working primarily on desktop computers."

In addition to more than 200 designs based on the Latin-1 character set and standard TrueType([R]) and OpenType([R]) font formats, the ESQ Mobile collection now includes a Simplified Chinese font fine-tuned with Monotype Imaging's SmartHint[TM] technology. The new, patent-pending method works with the company's iType([R]) 3.0 font engine to enable the high-quality display of complex East Asian text, scaled to small sizes. "SmartHint offers substantial benefits," said Geoff Greve, vice president of font development at Monotype Imaging. "In addition to maintaining small file sizes, SmartHint frees our customers from settling on the use of fixed-in-size embedded bitmaps for displaying small-sized East Asian text, which typically consists of elaborate letterforms. By evolving our font rendering solution to be fully scalable, we're also setting the groundwork for including scalable fonts in content and applications that can be downloaded to mobile phones."

About Monotype Imaging

Based in Woburn, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Chicago, Redwood City, Calif., Boulder, Colo., Japan and China, Monotype Imaging is a global leader in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging is home to the Monotype and ITC typeface libraries, collections that include widely used designs such as the Arial([R]), Times New Roman([R]), Gill Sans([R]) and ITC Franklin Gothic[TM] typeface families. Linotype GmbH, home to timeless designs such as the Helvetica([R]), Frutiger([R]) and Palatino([R]) typeface families, is a Monotype Imaging company. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions for most of the world's written languages. Information about Monotype Imaging and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk.

Monotype, ESQ, iType and WorldType are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. SmartHint is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Arial, Times New Roman and Gill Sans are trademarks of The Monotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. ITC is a registered trademark and ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corp. Helvetica, Frutiger and Palatino are registered trademarks of Linotype GmbH in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. OpenType is a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. TrueType is a registered trademark or Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [c] 2006 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved.