Talk:Monotype Imaging

Chinese "Keyboard"
The entry in the second to last paragraph about this device is vague and slightly confusing. Is there a reference for this somewhere, or at least an image? I'm having trouble grasping the concept from the description.

Also note that Monotype produced another Chinese keyboard in the Cambridge unit that presumably preceded it (when was the one in the article made?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.85.79 (talk) 14:42, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Caslon
William Caslon died in the mid-18th Century. How he could have introduced his typeface in the first quarter of the 20th Century is beyond me. "Caslon" has been removed from the offending sentence. Dynaflow 12:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The article referred to the introduction of Caslon to the Monotype range (in 1915), not to the original creation of the type. This was just one of many more or less faithful revivals of Caslon which have been cut since the original.
 * Coconino (talk) 21:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Monotype machine
It's disconcerting to be redirected to this article for the title "monotype machine" -- because there is no description of the monotype machine here! It would be nice to have one. Paul Koning 18:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. The Monotype Composition Caster (Super Caster) should have its own page, like that for the Linotype machine, and not be subsumed within the general article on the company which developed and made it.

Linotype and Monotype were the two five hundred pound gorillas battling for dominance at the turn of the century, although they were really most successful in different markets, with the Linotype being more appropriate for newspaper typesetting and the Monotype better for fine printing, since individual pieces of type can be moved as needed if a passage needed to be modified, whilst a cast full line might require everything from the changed line to the end of the paragraph to be reset. The columns set by the Linotype, however, could be easily moved and broken across pages, as is common in newspaper composition. There were other machines, though, like the Thompson Typecaster, which became fairly successful, although this company and machine appear not to exist within Wikipedia. The standard Monotype Composition Caster could cast type up to a 14 point body, suitable for body text and small display copy, alhough attachments were available which could make the casting of up to 24 point type possible through casting the letters at a greater point size than the body, in which case the overhang would be filled in with leads and slugs. The Super Caster extended the range of castable typesizes up to 72 points. Lee-Anne (talk) 06:11, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Style of article
The article reads like an official company history. Would it be appropriate to put a note on the page asking people to do something about that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.136.170 (talk) 03:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure, or you could do editing to cure the issue yourself. It doesn't look all that bad to me, though.  Yes it reads like a company history, but factual, not fluff. Paul Koning (talk) 14:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The information appears to be entirely true. It is the tone not the facts that appear to be wrong here. Even better than finding a template labeling the problem would be to edit the text to have an appropriately objective voice. CApitol3 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Article title
I suggest this should be renamed Monotype Imaging or similar to match the opening sentence. Nurg (talk) 02:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Wartime Activities
In Ellic Howe's The Black Game there is mention of how the Monotype Corporations catalog was used by the British Government to enable the forging of documents in Occupied Europe. It turns out that Monotype Corporation had supplied many of the major organizations such as the Reichsbank with typefaces for their exclusive use! Graham1973 (talk) 11:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Scope of Article
I edited the introduction paragraph to reflect accurate information about the parent company Monotype Imaging Holdings. It seems that Monotype Imaging Holdings is the intended focus of this article since the article refers to divisions and history of the historical Monotype company. I intend to edit the remainder of the article in similar fashion in the next few weeks (or more likely months). If this is not the intended focus of this article I would suggest that a new article be created for Monotype Imaging Holdings. Herring Pleb (talk) 21:57, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

"george wasington?"
The text indicates that the the Lanston company was founded by a george washington, with lowercase names, and the page links to the ffirst U.S. president, which is clearly not right, as the founding of the company was long after that Washington's death. I will remove the incorrect link, and capitalize the name, but I have no idea if George Washington is the correct name for the founder, so someone will have to fact check.zadignose (talk) 09:23, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Lanston Monotype [Machine] Company - merge it in?
See Lanston Monotype Company: "Lanston Monotype Company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century by Tolbert Lanston" and "The current incarnation as the "Lanston Type Co." is a division of P22 type foundry."

vs. here: "The Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded by Tolbert Lanston". Is the name with "Machine" for sure correct and is it the same one? Not sure if the other should be merged here (the source there might just have the wrong name). Shouldn't Lanston Monotype Machine Company redirect here?

See my recent edits e.g. this one at Tolbert Lanston. comp.arch (talk) 11:20, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Navbox template
I've decided to put together a navbox of typefaces Monotype created, particularly connected with their series of designs in the 20s and 30s under the Arts and Crafts-ish influence of Morison but listing some others worth noting, especially ones with Wikipedia articles. (Which meant I couldn't justify not including Curlz. Oh well.) I haven't put release dates because sources vary, presumably because it could take quite a long time for fonts to be 'released'. (For example, Joanna was designed in the 30s but didn't enter mass-market sale until 1958-to be fair, the war intervened with that one-and it took about five years for a lower-case for Albertus to show up. So the order is approximate, but I hope not too bad. Blythwood (talk) 15:07, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

MyFonts.com scam behavior
To me, MyFonts.com (owned by M/I) seems to be engaging in deceptive practices. Please see my extended post on Talk:MyFonts. (I had initial thoughts, then revised thoughts, so read my whole blurb to get my whole current view). I'm posting a link here because the oldest post there is 2009. In terms of the parent company, does anyone know of any other deceptive practices by this company? The article seems pretty clean. Maybe this should be looked into, or at least maybe other WP editors should be careful searching for objective information. Squish7 (talk) 03:28, 1 March 2016 (UTC) Please include   in replies to ping me.

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a good source for the history of Monotype:
If it comes to a real good source, everybody here might look for the following title:

Rich Hopkins, Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype, The Origin of Digital Yypesetting, University of Tampa Press, Tampa FL 33606, 2012

here you will find a fine illustrated book, written by a man who lived his life between Monotype machines...

You all could improve yourself with it !

best wishes J.T.W.A.Cornelisse (talk) 15:55, 2 April 2018 (UTC)