Monotype Imaging Debuts Public Beta of SpectraWorks GUI Solution with Enhanced Text Support

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has launched the public beta of SpectraWorks^™ version 2.4, a hardware- and OS-independent suite of technologies for developing embedded graphical user interfaces quickly and inexpensively. The latest version will mark the first product for consumer electronics device manufacturers that integrates the company’s font technologies with SpectraWorks software from Planetweb, Inc., a worldwide provider of GUI software tools acquired by Monotype Imaging in December, 2009.

SpectraWorks 2.4 combines capabilities from the iType^® font engine and WorldType^® Layout Engine, Monotype Imaging’s text rendering and layout solutions that feature proprietary innovations for quickly displaying high-quality, multilingual text. In addition, SpectraWorks 2.4 includes new 2.5-dimensional perspective transformation capabilities that allow for the rotation of widget groupings, enabling the appearance of 3D views of the widgets at various angles.

"With this newest version, SpectraWorks will offer a deep set of text capabilities, in addition to new 3D-style perspective transformation features, which will broaden opportunity for OEMs to develop distinctive graphical user interfaces,” said John Seguin, executive vice president of Monotype Imaging. "Customers will have finer control over differentiating their offerings and reducing time to market, thanks to the ability to address text and language requirements as part of the GUI design and development process from Day 1.”

Licensed to OEMs, developers and designers, SpectraWorks enables the design of highly interactive GUIs and applications for CE devices such as digital cameras, set-top boxes, high-definition DVD players and consumer appliances. SpectraWorks comprises three products: the SpectraBuilder^™ design tool for constructing and customizing GUIs through a library of building block components; the SpectraCore^™ embedded systems library that runs on target devices and serves as the GUI rendering engine; and the SpectraApps^™ library of C-code applications that can be customized by OEMs to rapidly build unique products.

SpectraWorks 2.4 supports several capabilities featured in the iType font engine, Monotype Imaging’s font rendering subsystem for enabling the clear display of text in virtually any language. In addition to the iType rasterizer, SpectraWorks 2.4 supports Edge^™ Technology, the company’s proprietary solution for displaying superior quality, typographically rich East Asian text in a small memory footprint. SpectraWorks 2.4 supports several font formats, including TrueType^® fonts, Monotype Imaging’s CATT^™ (Compact Asian for TrueType Technology) fonts, Edge fonts, stroke fonts, font subsets, embedded bitmaps, custom fonts and linked fonts. Also new in SpectraWorks 2.4 is the support of iType text effects, including selectable bold weight, selectable italic angle, outline width and outline opacity control, as well as "glow” – a visual effect that results from specifying a dark outline that grows lighter as the eye moves away from the text.

SpectraWorks 2.4 also supports Monotype Imaging’s WorldType Shaper, a character shaping technology from WorldType Layout Engine, Monotype Imaging’s multilingual text layout solution. WorldType Shaper facilitates the ability to clearly display characters from complex scripts such as Arabic, Indic and Hebrew – writing systems that contain characters that can change shape, depending on the order of certain characters entered by the user. WorldType Shaper also enables characters from complex scripts to display in the proper direction in which the characters are expected to appear.

Further information about SpectraWorks is available at www.monotypeimaging.com/spectraworks. Customers interested in obtaining the SpectraWorks public beta software development kit may also contact Monotype Imaging at swsales@monotypeimaging.com.

About Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging is a global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices including laser printers, copiers, mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, navigation devices, digital cameras and software applications and operating systems. The company also provides printer drivers, color imaging technologies and embedded graphical user interface solutions to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging technologies are combined with access to more than 13,000 typefaces from the Monotype^®, Linotype^® and ITC^® typeface libraries – home to some of the world's most widely used designs, including the Times New Roman^®, Helvetica^® and ITC Franklin Gothic^™ typefaces. Fonts are licensed to creative and business professionals through custom font design services, direct sales or e-commerce portals. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions that support all of the world's major languages. The company is based in Woburn, Mass., with regional offices in the U.K., Germany (Linotype), Japan, China and Korea, in addition to U.S. regional offices in Mt. Prospect, Ill., Redwood City, Calif. and Boulder, Colo. Information about Monotype Imaging and its products can be found at www.monotypeimaging.com.

Monotype, iType and WorldType are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. SpectraWorks, SpectraBuilder, SpectraCore, SpectraApps, Edge and CATT are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Times New Roman is a trademark of The Monotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Linotype is a trademark of Linotype GmbH registered in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Helvetica is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. ITC is a trademark of International Typeface Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corp. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. TrueType is a trademark of Apple Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2010 Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. All rights reserved.

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