Company History

1990

January	Established Fontworks International, Ltd.
December	Release of Postscript Japanese font "Rodin DB"

1993

August	株式会社フォントワークスジャパン設立

1994

August	Fontworks Friendship Meeting
December	Launched "New Character Legend" Packaging ATM

1995

November	Launched "Future Letter Studio", a medium and low resolution version Fonts Gaiji 718 characters are added to each typeface of Rodin / Matisse / Seurat / Cezanne / Greco and redesigned to Plus typeface

1998

April	Expanded to Fontworks Friendship 83 stores Product restructuring, value pack with great value

1999

July	Release of "Fontworks ATM Font Classic Set 25", a 10th anniversary thank-you pack for Rodin

the year of 2000

February	Fontworks collection appears as CID font (CD-ROM Volume 5.0) Released “Fontworks Gaiji Master 1.0”
July	Fontworks Collection OCF font products Switch to build-to-order production
December	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)

2001

March	Fontworks Collection OCF Font Products Discontinued
July	Released "Fontworks CID Classic Set 26 ATM Exclusive Edition / Mid / Low Resolution Edition"
October	Released "Fontworks CID Classic Additional Typeface Pack" that includes Seurat CID-L/UB and Klee CID-DB
November	Released "Fontworks Gaiji Master NEO" (with this, the Gaiji Master 1.0 was discontinued)

2002

May	Acceptance of "Pre-LETS", which precedes as part of the comprehensive font environment Support program "LETS", started
June	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)
September	Full operation of "LETS" started
October	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

2004

January	End of font sales by FBF
March	End of preferential sales of OpenType font Packaging products
October	Macromedia and Fontworks Japan strengthen cooperation to improve user convenience for Japanese fonts
November	Launch of "LETS for ASP server"
December	IWATA CORPORATION participates in LETS business Iwata and Fontworks Japan form a business alliance regarding the LETS business

Year 2005

February	Launched "LETS for Mac OS X Server"
March	Started sales of "Iwata LETS" End of Support OCF font Packaging products
November	Launched “Maiji”, a glyph conversion tool

2006

April	Released Korean font "JIKJI LETS"

2007

May	Launched the Windows version of the glyph conversion tool “Maiji”

2008

March	End of upgrade service for Packaging products OCF fonts to CID fonts
July	Company name changed from "Fontworks Japan Inc." to Fontworks Inc. Moved office from Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka to Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka

2009

January	Scaleform and Fontworks form partnership to provide vector graphic fonts to Japanese game developers
February	Started sales of "Type Bank LETS"
March	Finished manufacturing and shipping floppy disk CID font products
June	Started sales of "Hosho LETS"
August	Released a freeware font management tool "LETS FontACE Lite" and started Downloads
December	"Tsukushi Old Mincho" and "Tsukushimaru Gothic" are "Tokyo TDC Award 2010" ＜ TDC Award ＞ Awarded

2010

February	Started sales of "Shirafune LETS"
March	Mar. Ends manufacturing and shipping of external character creation tool "gaiji master NEO" Packaging products.

year 2012

July	"LETS Entry Pack CID ATM Exclusive Edition" is no longer available
August	"Type Bank LETS" and "JIKJI LETS" services ended
December	Launched "LETS Member Certificate Issuing Service"

2013

June	Capital tie-up with SB Technology Co., Ltd.

2014

January	New service started under the concept of [LETS AS ONE] LETS install kit renewal Launched educational support program "LETS for students"
March	Web font function "FONTPLUS for LETS PUTK" started to be provided.

2015

December	MOTOYA CO.,LTD. participates in LETS business Motoya and Fontworks form a business alliance regarding the LETS business

2016

June	Apataichi is appointed as President and CEO
December	Fontworks Universal Design font wins IA Universal Design Award 2016 Silver Award

2017

April	Ai Harada appointed as President and CEO Strategic business alliance with Monotype Co., Ltd. Western / multi-Language start the typeface annual flat-rate font service "Monotype LETS"
October	Chikushi typeface series won the 2017 Good Design Award
December	Chikushi typeface won Tokyo TDC Award 2018 Type Design Award

2018

March	Started select font service "mojimo". Started providing "mojimo-manga" as the first step.
April	Launched a lightweight font "Type-S / Type-XS" for embedded solutions
August	Launched the second pack "mojimo-kirei", "mojimo-kawaii" and "mojimo-oishii" of the select font service "mojimo"
December	Launch of mojimo-game, the third pack of select font service "mojimo" Launch of the fourth pack "mojimo-joshi" of select font service "mojimo"

2019

January	Solution for embedded devices Launch of "Type-D", a device font for ultra-small screens / Announcement of evidence of experiments in joint research conducted with Kyushu University for this font Embedded solution Font "Type-D UD Kakugo_Small-M" for ultra-small screen devices launched Joint research materials with Kyushu University also released
March	5th pack "mojimo-live" and "mojimo-live Lite" of select font service "mojimo" started
April	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".
May	Participated in the LETS business of SHOWASHOTAI Co.,Ltd. Showa typeface LETS provided
June	As the 7th pack of the select font service "mojimo", the typeface developed by Showa typeface is available as "mojimo-fude"
August	Launch of the 8th pack "mojimo-jewel ☆" of select font service "mojimo"
October	The 9th pack "mojimo-VR" of select font service "mojimo" is now available.
November	Event "Moji Fes. Mojito Motto Jyuuni" held in Shibuya
December	本社を福岡から東京へ移転、福岡の拠点を「Fukuoka Creative Lab」へ組込向けソリューション　軽量フォント「Type-S/Type-XS」で丸ゴシック体（TypeS-UD丸ゴ_ラージ-L/B、TypeXS-UD丸ゴ_ラージ-L/B）を提供開始

2020年

January	AR環境下での文字情報提示手法の研究を、東京大学と共同で発表
March	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。
April	セレクトフォントサービス「mojimo」のiPad / iPhone向けパック「mojimo-select for iPad β版」提供開始東京本社のオフィスが「Outstanding Property Award London」インテリアデザイン部門でPlatinumを受賞『エヴァンゲリオン公式フォントマティスEB』のパッケージを「シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版」とのタイアップデザインとして販売組込向けソリューション　軽量フォント「Type-S/Type-XS」で丸ゴシック体（TypeS-UD丸ゴ_ラージ-M/DB、TypeXS-UD丸ゴ_ラージ-M/DB）を提供開始
June	東京本社のオフィスが「MUSE Design Awards」インテリアデザイン部門でGoldを受賞組込向けソリューション　中国向け簡体字フォント（方正電子共同開発）で「筑紫Aオールド明朝」「パール」などを提供開始
August	iPad / iPhone向け日本語フォントアプリ「mojimo」を開始　「mojimo-free」「mojimo-select」提供開始 iPad / iPhone向け日本語フォントアプリ「mojimo」にて「mojimo-manga」提供開始東京本社のオフィスが「A' Design Award and Competition」INTERIOR SPACE AND EXHIBITION DESIGN部門でBronzeを受賞
September	東京本社のオフィスが「Novum Design Award」インテリアデザイン部門でBronzeを受賞「ASPサーバー対応LETS」を「LETSサーバーライセンス」としてリニューアルし、提供開始
October	iPad / iPhone向け日本語フォントアプリ「mojimo」にて「mojimo-kirei」「mojimo-kawaii」「mojimo-oishii」提供開始福岡オフィス「Fukuoka Creative Lab」が「MUSE Design Awards」インテリアデザイン部門でGoldを受賞
November	コーポレートサイトが公益社団法人日本アドバタイザーズ協会Web広告研究会主催「第8回Webグランプリ」企業グランプリ部門コーポレートサイト賞でグランプリを受賞東京本社のオフィスが「Architecture MasterPrize」インテリアデザイン・オフィス部門でHonorable mentionを受賞
December	組込向けソリューション　中国向け簡体字フォント（方正電子共同開発）で「筑紫ゴシック」「筑紫オールドゴシック」「筑紫A見出ミン」「筑紫アンティークLゴ」「筑紫アンティークSゴ」を提供開始 iPad / iPhone向け日本語フォントアプリ「mojimo」にて「mojimo-jewel☆」提供開始

2021年

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

January	「クレー」「ロックンロール」「レゲエ」「ドットゴシック」など8書体を「GoogleFonts」で提供開始セレクトフォントサービス「mojimo」にて「mojimo-select」提供開始
February	年間定額制フォントサービス「LETS」をリニューアル、提供開始東京本社のオフィスが「International Design Awards 」インテリア・デザイン部門でBronzeを受賞
March	Acquired ISO 27001, the international standard for information security management
July	年間定額制フォントサービス「LETS」にて、アプリ・ゲームにフォントを組み込んで使用できるライセンスを提供開始『タイポグラフィ・アワード presented by フォントワークス×ViViViT』を開催学生向けLETSリニューアル
August	未来を担う子どもたちを支援するフォントサービス「むすびも」を開始
September	「筑紫Aオールド明朝」「UD丸ゴ_スモール」など11書体を「GoogleFonts」で提供開始