Private company
Monotype
Logo: fontworks.co.jp3
Monotype is a Japanese type foundry company based in Fukuoka Prefecture, founded in 1993.1
Monotype株式会社は、東京都港区に本社を置くフォント制作会社。アメリカのモノタイプ・イメージングの日本法人。2 From the Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
Aug 9, 1993Founded1
- Industryvideo game industry1
- HeadquartersFukuoka Prefecture, Japan1
- Websitefontworks.co.jp
- Legal formkabushiki gaisha1
Corporate structure
Monotype is part of a group headed by Monotype. 5 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
- Monotype Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
- Monotype Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- FontShop Subsidiary · Berlin
- International Typeface Corporation Subsidiary · New York City
- URW Type Foundry Subsidiary · Hamburg
Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.
Subsidiaries and ownership
Parent company
- Monotype since 2023
Owners
- Monotype since 2023
Former owners and parents
- SB Technology 100% until 2023
- SoftBank Group until 2023
From Wikidata.1
Timeline
Links
- Websitefontworks.co.jp1
- Websitefontworks.co.jp/en1
- X (Twitter)x.com/Fontworks_Inc1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/fontworks1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/fontworks.co.jp1
- YouTubewww.youtube.com/channel/UC9PhWMHlyWbsuOzcDLY2YtQ1
- WikidataQ11332919
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataMonotype on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMonotype on the Japanese Wikipedia
- 3Company websiteMonotype logo