Monotype LETS

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This annual font subscription service provides you with more than 9,000 Latin and other fonts from the diverse font library of Monotype Imaging Inc., which has a 150-year-old history in the field. You can use world-famous, high-grade Latin fonts such as Helvetica®, Frutiger®, and Optima®, as well as diverse fonts for many languages.

What's special about Monotype LETS?

Diverse font library for western and other languages, rich in quality and quantity

More than 9,000 Latin and other fonts selected from the extensive Monotype font library, including world-famous designs such as Helvetica®, Frutiger®, and Optima®.

Wide variety of fonts from multiple languages

It contains a wide variety of fonts supporting multiple languages, including 669 extended Latin fonts covering over 89 languages with standard Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, as well as 13 Devanagari, 119 Arabic, and 34 Thai fonts, and more.
It also includes 216 fonts compliant with Chinese national standards.

Monotype's first original Japanese font: Tazugane® Gothic

It also includes Monotype's first original Japanese font, Tazugane® Gothic, in four convenient weights: Ultra Light, Light, Bold, and Black. This Japanese font was specifically designed to be complement Monotype's internationally respected, Neue Frutiger® Latin font, and delivers high legibility in text combining Japanese and Latin scripts.

All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Plan

You can use all currently available high-quality fonts, and all fonts released in the future during your subscription term.

Secure Licensing

As there are more opportunities to deploy your content multilaterally, boosting the utility of commercial fonts in many business fields, we explicitly define our font licensing strategy.

Fonts on Tap

You can subscribe online right now, and use the fonts as soon as your subscription is approved.
* Internet connection is required for subscription application and use.

Option

You can also subscribe to the Game LETS Extended License to securely use the fonts in game production.

Click here for more information about font licensing.

Popular Fonts Available Immediately

Originally designed for signage at Charles de Gaulle Airport, it is popular as one of the most legible typefaces.

Best suited to modern text, maintaining traditional balance and yet clear and sharp.
It is suitable for general printed and electronic books.

This world-famous typeface even has a documentary film made about it.
The characters have stable forms evincing robustness and reliability.

Popular and often used in the fashion industry, it was designed by a famous German calligrapher.

Keeping its elegant calligraphic style, this modern and freewheeling typeface imparts a high-class atmosphere in various fields.

This modern and sophisticated sans-serif typeface was designed based on logical future family expansion from the planning phase, and offers systematically designed Condensed to Expanded faces.

Although it is sans-serif, the slightly right-slanted vertical strokes give the warm, uplifting feeling of handwriting.

Designed as a universal and geometric sans-serif typeface, it provides a humane feeling with its character-proportion-oriented design.

This widely used typeface was the mainstay of letterpress printing, as evidenced by the saying "When in doubt, typeset in Caslon".
It is famous for being used in the American Declaration of Independence.

One of the hallmark typefaces of the United Kingdom, it is famous for its magnificent capitals.
It is often used both for body text and titles in books and magazines.

This is a lighter variant of the famous standard typeface.
Its elegant and sophisticated appearance is suitable for headlines but as it is not too heavy, it can also be used to highlight text without overpowering readers.

Originating from letterpress characters in England, the typeface was polished and revived in the 1950's, becoming popular for its powerful form and legibility. It has been used to decorate the jackets of many famous jazz albums.

Designed in the US in the early 20th century, it recalls to mind the letterpress typefaces of the 19th century with its fine balance of intrusiveness and individuality.

Consisting of only capital letters, the typeface has the aura of copperplate engraving. It is often used in wine labels and fancy chocolate boxes, with subdued tones and sensitivity.

This typeface is popular among famous confectionaries, creating a traditional mood with its unique character design.

This casual cursive typeface offers uniformity in the characters, as if written with a felt-tip or broad-tipped ballpoint pen.
Text is compact as the lower-case letters are on a common baseline.

This typeface is based on a face used in formal printed materials from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and often seen in sci-fi or action film titles.

This Japanese typeface was designed to match Neue Frutiger®, and aims to fulfill existing design requirement and establish a new standard.

Frutiger is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Palatino is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Helvetica is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Optima is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Zapfino is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Univers is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Syntax is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Avenir is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Caslon is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Baskerville is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Neue Helvetica is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Clarendon is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.
Franklin Gothic is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Chevalier is a trademark of Monotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Sackers is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Bradley Type is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Morris Sans is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.

Tazugane Gothic is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.

Available Fonts


186 Japanese Typefaces	394 OpenType fonts 802 TrueType fonts
Numeral fonts	208

European Languages

Character set	Supported Languages	Fonts Included
OpenType Std	21	1,857
OpenType Pro	33	3,705
OpenType W1G (WGL)	89	657
OpenType W2G	93	22

Languages Supported in the Monotype Fonts

OpenType Std—21 languages


Latin	Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish, Scots), German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami (Southern), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish

OpenType Pro—33 languages


Latin	Latin OpenType Std—21 languages 　+ Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish

OpenType W1G (WGL)—89 languages


Latin	Latin OpenType Pro—33 languages 　+ Albanian, Alsatian, Armenian, Asturian, Bosnian, Cebuano, Chichewa, Cornish, Corsican, Esperanto, Faroese, Filipino, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Greenlandic, Karelian, Ladin, Latin (Lingua Latina), Luba, Maltese, Moldavian (Latin), Occitan, Rheto-Romance, Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sorbian, Turkmen (Latin), Vepsian, Welsh, Wolof, Zulu
Cyrillic	Agul, Avar, Balkar, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Erzya, Gagauz, Ingush, Karachay, Khvarshi, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Moldavian, Nenets Tundra, Ossetian, Russian, Rutul, Serbian, Ukrainian
Greek	Greek

OpenType W2G—93 languages


Latin	OpenType W1G (WGL)—89 languages 　+ Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Vietnamese
Cyrillic	Azerbaijani, Kazakh
Hebrew	Hebrew

Script	Number of Fonts
Latin/Extended Latin	7,832
Cyrillic	934
Greek	932
Hebrew	91
Devanagari	13
Gujarati	5
Arabic	121
Armenian	8
Thai	34
Vietnamese	62
Japanese	4
Simplified Chinese	77
Traditional Chinese	150

Chinese National Standard Supported


Big5, HKSCS	148
GB2312	63
GB18030	5

Formats


OpenType	5,716
TrueType	3,378

Price

■One License for One Platform on One Computer

If you want to use our fonts on virtualized platforms using BootCamp on Mac OS, or VMWare, you will need one license for each operating system (e.g. one for Mac OS and one for Windows on BootCamp).

■The subscription fee depends on your contract length.

■You can select a 3-year (yearly/lump-sum payment) or a 1-year subscription.

3-Year Course


Initial fee	30,000 yen (excluding tax) per office (first time only)
Annual subscription fee	24,000 yen (excluding tax)/platform/year * You may also choose to pay 72,000 yen (excluding tax) for 3 years in one lump sum.

1-Year Course


Initial fee	30,000 yen (excluding tax) per office (first time only)
Annual subscription fee	36,000 yen (excluding tax)/platform/year

Additional platforms


3-Year Course	2,000 yen (excluding tax)/platform/month
1-Year Course	3,000 yen (excluding tax)/platform/month

If you are already subscribed to Iwata, Motoya, or Monotype LETS, the initial fee is waived.
The initial fee is 30,000 yen (excluding tax) for one office regardless of the number of platforms licensed.
Please note that the 3-year course requires that you keep using the fonts for a 3-year period. If you terminate the subscription before your expiration date, it will be treated as the 1-year course, and we will invoice you for the difference.

Game LETS Extended License

This allows you to integrate our fonts into games or to use them in chat services.
Under the LETS license you can only use the font characters as images in games, but this license allows you to integrate font files and character outlines. Players will be able to enter characters for in-game chats or player profiles, which have been outside the license scope.

Extended license scope

Character input by game players
Font outline data utilization
Font file integration into applications (full character set or subset)
Font embedding into Adobe Flash files

Font Usage	LETS license scope	Extended license scope
Convert entered characters into images and use in static strings (e.g. in button images) in applications or games	OK	OK
Use fonts in areas where game players can enter characters	NA	OK
Use outline information extracted from fonts	NA	OK
Use font files themselves in game applications (full set/subset)	NA	OK
Embed characters in [Static Text] or [Input Text] property in Flash games	OK	OK
Integrate fonts in [Dynamic Text] property as subset font in Flash games	NA	OK
Use fonts as being utilized by OS	NA	NA
Use fonts in application development in Japan, and sell applications abroad	OK	OK
Use fonts for game development overseas	NA	NA

Production within the license scope

Game software in general (including console, smartphone, computer and other games)

Usage outside the license scope

Integrating fonts into hardware
Using fonts on servers
Integrating fonts into operating systems
Integrating the fonts in electronic book viewers, video viewers (with or without commenting functions), graphic software, spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers, graphic or video editors, or audio (lyric) editors

Please contact us to use fonts in middleware such as Unity.
Integrating fonts into hardware for use as system fonts will require additional fees. Please contact us for more details.
Products developed using LETS fonts may be sold abroad, as long as the development is done in Japan. (The license does not include the right to use font files outside Japan.)

Service Details


Targets	Game creators and digital content publishers
Usage	General game software
Game contents within the license	console, computer, social, and arcade games and more
Licensed Period	In accordance with your LETS subscription period
Available Fonts	Same as your LETS subscription

Fee

Increased convenience as the licensed period is the same as your LETS subscription.
We do not require application for individual game titles, and there is no per-game fee.
The Game LETS Extended License is available with two fee structures, depending on the number of platforms licensed under your LETS subscription.

Fee


10 or fewer platforms	100,000 yen (+ consumption tax)
More than 10 platforms	Number of platforms x 10,000 yen (+consumption tax)