Company History
| Established Fontworks International, Ltd. | |
| Released the Postscript Japanese font "Rodin-DB" |
| 株式会社フォントワークスジャパン設立 |
| Fontworks Friendship Meeting | |
| Launched "New Character Legend" Packaging ATM |
| Release of low and medium resolution version of "Mirai Moji Kobo" 718 Fontworks external characters have been added to each of Rodin, Matisse, Seurat, Cezanne and Greco fonts, renewing them to Plus fonts. |
| Expanded to Fontworks Friendship 83 stores Product restructuring, value pack with great value |
| Rodin 's 10th Anniversary Appreciation Pack "Fontworks ATM Font Classic Set 25" released |
| Fontworks collection appears as CID font (CD-ROM Volume 5.0) Released “Fontworks Gaiji Master 1.0” |
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| Fontworks Collection OCF font products Switch to build-to-order production | |
| End of Support for old version OCF products "Installer ver 3.3 or lower printer font products" and "New character legend ver 1" End of acceptance of upgrade from old version OCF products to Plus typeface (ver 4.5) |
| Fontworks Collection OCF Font Products Discontinued | |
| Released "Fontworks CID Classic Set 26 ATM Exclusive Edition / Mid / Low Resolution Edition" | |
| Released "Fontworks CID Classic Additional Font Pack" including Seurat CID-L/UB and Klee CID-DB. | |
| Released "Fontworks Gaiji Master NEO" (with this, the Gaiji Master 1.0 was discontinued) |
| Acceptance of "Pre-LETS", which precedes as part of the comprehensive font environment Support program "LETS", started | |
| Release of "LETS Entry Pack CID ATM Exclusive Edition", a Packaging with a free LETS membership fee "Pre-LETS" shipment start (OpenType font advance provision start to LETS members) |
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| Full operation of "LETS" started | |
| Launch of Packaging OpenType font products (Classic Series 29 typefaces for Mac / Win) Fontworks Japan and Iwata announce business agreement on expanding font sales and technical cooperation |
| End of font sales by FBF | |
| End of preferential sales of OpenType font Packaging products | |
| Macromedia and Fontworks Japan strengthen cooperation to improve user convenience for Japanese fonts | |
| Launch of "LETS for ASP server" | |
| IWATA CORPORATION participates in LETS business Iwata and Fontworks Japan form a business alliance regarding the LETS business |
| Launched "LETS for Mac OS X Server" | |
| Started sales of "Iwata LETS" End of Support OCF font Packaging products |
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| Launched “Maiji”, a glyph conversion tool |
| Released Korean font "JIKJI LETS" |
| Launched the Windows version of the glyph conversion tool “Maiji” |
| End of upgrade service for Packaging products OCF fonts to CID fonts | |
| Company name changed from "Fontworks Japan Inc." to Fontworks Inc. Moved office from Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka to Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka |
| Scaleform and Fontworks form partnership to provide vector graphic fonts to Japanese game developers | |
| Started sales of "Type Bank LETS" | |
| Finished manufacturing and shipping floppy disk CID font products | |
| Started sales of "Hosho LETS" | |
| Released a freeware font management tool "LETS FontACE Lite" and started Downloads | |
| "TsukuOldMin" and "Tsukushi Maru Gothic" won the "Tokyo TDC Award 2010 (TDC Award)" |
| Started sales of "Shirafune LETS" | |
| Mar. Ends manufacturing and shipping of external character creation tool "gaiji master NEO" Packaging products. |
| "LETS Entry Pack CID ATM Exclusive Edition" is no longer available | |
| "Type Bank LETS" and "JIKJI LETS" services ended | |
| Launched "LETS Member Certificate Issuing Service" |
| Capital tie-up with SB Technology Co., Ltd. |
| New service started under the concept of [LETS AS ONE] LETS install kit renewal Launched educational support program "LETS for students" |
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| Web font function "FONTPLUS for LETS PUTK" started to be provided. |
| MOTOYA CO.,LTD. participates in LETS business Motoya and Fontworks form a business alliance regarding the LETS business |
| Fontworks Universal Design font wins IA Universal Design Award 2016 Silver Award |
| Formed a strategic business alliance with Monotype KK and launched "Monotype LETS," a yearly flat-rate font service for Roman and Language fonts. | |
| Chikushi typeface series won the 2017 Good Design Award | |
| Chikushi typeface won Tokyo TDC Award 2018 Type Design Award |
| Started select font service "mojimo". Started providing "mojimo-manga" as the first step. | |
| Launched a lightweight font "Type-S / Type-XS" for embedded solutions | |
| Launched the second pack "mojimo-kirei", "mojimo-kawaii" and "mojimo-oishii" of the select font service "mojimo" | |
| Launch of mojimo-game, the third pack of select font service "mojimo" Launch of the fourth pack "mojimo-joshi" of select font service "mojimo" |
| Embedded Solutions: Launched "Type-D," a device font for extremely small screens. Announced experimental evidence of joint research with Kyushu University on the font. Embedded Solutions: Launch of "Type-D UDKakugo_Small-M" font for extremely small screen devices. Collaborative research materials with Kyushu University also released. |
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| 5th pack "mojimo-live" and "mojimo-live Lite" of select font service "mojimo" started | |
| Received the 18th Keinosuke Sato Award As the 6th pack of the select font service "mojimo", the Maru Mincho type developed by Kinuta Type Co., Ltd. is now available as "mojimo-marumin". |
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| Participated in the LETS business of SHOWASHOTAI Co.,Ltd. Showa typeface LETS provided | |
| As the 7th pack of the select font service "mojimo", the typeface developed by Showa typeface is available as "mojimo-fude" | |
| Launch of the 8th pack "mojimo-jewel ☆" of select font service "mojimo" | |
| The 9th pack "mojimo-VR" of select font service "mojimo" is now available. | |
| Event "Moji Fes. Mojito Motto Jyuuni" held in Shibuya | |
| The company relocated its headquarters from Fukuoka to Tokyo, and established the Fukuoka base as the "Fukuoka Creative Lab." Embedded Solutions: Lightweight font "Type-S/Type-XS" now offers round gothic (TypeS-UDMarugo_Large-L/B, TypeXS-UDMarugo_Large Large-L/B) |
| Presented research on text information presentation method in AR environment in collaboration with the University of Tokyo | |
| 韓国語フォントメーカーYoonDesign Group Inc.、LETS事業に参画。「YOON LETS」提供開始。 | |
| Select font service "mojimo" launches "mojimo-select for iPad β version" pack for iPad/iPhone Tokyo Head Office Wins Platinum Award in the Interior Design Category of the Outstanding Property Award London Packaging for the "Evangelion Official Font Matisse EB" will be sold as a tie-up design with the "Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time" movie. Embedded Solutions: Lightweight font "Type-S/Type-XS" now offers round gothic (TypeS-UDMarugo_Large-M/DB, TypeXS-UDMarugo_Large-M/DB) |
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| Tokyo Head Office Wins Gold in the Interior Design Category of the "MUSE Design Awards" Embedded Solutions: Started providing "TsukuAOldMin" and "Pearl" as simplified Chinese fonts (jointly developed with Fangzheng Electronics) for China |
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| Started Japanese font application "mojimo" for iPad / iPhone Launched "mojimo-free" and "mojimo-select" Started providing "mojimo-manga" in the Japanese font application "mojimo" for iPad / iPhone Tokyo head office received Bronze in INTERIOR SPACE AND EXHIBITION DESIGN category of "A' Design Award and Competition" |
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| Tokyo Headquarters Office Wins Bronze in Interior Design Award at Novum Design Award "ASP server compatible LETS" has been renewed as "LETS server license" and is now available |
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| "Mojimo-kirei", "mojimo-kawaii" and "mojimo-oishii" are now available on the Japanese font app "mojimo" for iPad / iPhone. Fukuoka office "Fukuoka Creative Lab" won Gold in the interior design category of "MUSE Design Awards" |
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| Corporate site won the Grand Prix at the Corporate Site Award in the Corporate Grand Prix category of the "8th Web Grand Prix" sponsored by the Japan Advertisers Association Web Advertisement Tokyo Headquarters Office Receives Honorable mention in "Architecture Master Prize" Interior Design Office Category |
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| Embedded Solutions: Started providing "TsukuGo", "TsukuOldGothic", "TsukuAMDMin", "TsukuAntique L Gothic" and "TsukuAntique S Gothic" as simplified Chinese fonts (jointly developed with Fangzheng Electronics) for China. "mojimo-jewel☆" now available on the Japanese font app "mojimo" for iPad/iPhone |
| Eight fonts, including "Klee," "RocknRoll," "Reggae," and "Dot Gothic," are now available on "Google Fonts" "mojimo-select" launched on select font service "mojimo" |
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| Renewal and start of annual flat-rate font service "LETS" Tokyo Headquarters Office Wins Bronze in Interior Design Category of "International Design Awards" |
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| Acquired ISO 27001, the international standard for information security management | |
| Started offering a license that allows you to incorporate fonts into apps and games and use them on the annual flat-rate font service "LETS". "Typography Award presented by Fontworks x ViViViT" held LETS renewal for students |
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| Launched "Musubimo", a font service that supports children who will lead the future | |
| 11 fonts, including "TsukuAOldMin" and "UDMarugo_Small", are now available on "Google Fonts" | |
| FlipFont® now available at Galaxy Store (Rampart Railway) Expanding the target audience for "LETS for Students" New LETS releases new function for corporations: "Group function" |
| “MOJICITY,” an experimental virtual city that “creates a world where you can freely enjoy your own fonts,” opens. Automatic font generation app “AI JIMOJI” released at “MOJICITY” "mojimo-EVA" now available on select font service "mojimo" |
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| Acquisition of shares of Integral Vision Graphics Co., Ltd. (making it a subsidiary) "LETS for Academic (Academic License)" and "LETS for Server (Server License)" are now available at the new LETS "Font list sharing function" added in new LETS "Mojimo-retro future" is now available on the select font service "mojimo" |
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| New LETS launches "Impression Word Search AI (β version)" that allows you to search for fonts from "Impression Words" "Mojimo-retro future" is now available on the select font service "mojimo" Current LETS discontinues provision of new fonts |
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| Partial revision of terms of use for the font automatic generation app "AI JIMOJI" | |
| The game “Ninnin!” will be held at the experimental virtual city “MOJICITY”. Release of ``Visual Degozaru'' | |
| "Artificial Intelligence No. 6 (beta version)" now available in the experimental virtual city "MOJICITY" Fontworks LETS now offers font weight reduction options |
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| Developed TV Asahi original font "TV Asahi UD" Jointly developed LINE original font "LINE Seed JP" with LINE Creative Center BX Design Room |
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| Font AI learning app “I want to know about artificial intelligence No. 4” released in the experimental virtual city “MOJICITY” Started offering 3 “AR fonts” optimal for AR environments |
| Adobe fonts now offers six fonts, including UDKakugo_Large | |
| Started offering "mojimo-plus" on select font service "mojimo" | |
| Fontworks 30th anniversary | |
| Transferred shares from SB Technology Co., Ltd. to American type foundry Monotype. Under Monotype | |
| Font name search app “Font search from photo” released in experimental virtual city “MOJICITY” |
| Flagship font "Tsukushi Typeface Series" celebrates its 20th anniversary | |
| Launch of "Shokotan Font", a collaboration project with Shoko Nakagawa Samsung to provide 38 fonts, including TsukuARdGothic to Samsung mobile devices |
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| Together with Monotype, we have begun providing 548 typefaces, including Tazugane Gothic and TsukuGo to "ST Universal Design IO" Annual flat-rate font service "LETS" expands licensing for overseas broadcasting and Video use |
| Fontworks Inc. changes its name to Monotype KK |
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