iType technology offers rich text support for handset manufacturers and operator services

WOBURN, Mass.-- Monotype Imaging’s iType® font engine, the company’s embedded subsystem for generating scalable, multilingual text on consumer electronics devices, will be made available for Symbian OS™ as a reference component, shipping in Symbian OS developer and customer kits. The iType font engine can be used for test and development purposes but must be licensed from Monotype Imaging directly for use in products.

“Through our existing partnership with Symbian, developers worldwide will be able to deploy advanced text handling capabilities to support mobile applications, user interfaces and mobile content and services for Symbian smartphones,” said John Seguin, executive vice president of Monotype Imaging Inc. “As mobile phones become more sophisticated, and as opportunities such as mobile marketing and branded, interactive services become more viable, high-quality text support becomes even more critical for mobile phones to operate as effective communication devices. Our technologies are designed to enable OEMs and mobile developers to reduce design and production complexities and gain time-to-market advantages for reaching global, regional or local markets.”

“Monotype Imaging’s iType font engine is already used by many of our customers - a testament to its advanced features and text quality,” said Bill Pinnell, graphics product manager, Symbian. “Symbian has worked closely with Monotype Imaging on enabling standardized interfaces to new font effects and will ship iType as a reference component within Symbian OS, providing our customers with lower integration costs and reduced time to market.”

Designed for resource-constrained devices such as cell phones and already deployed by three of the world’s largest handset manufacturers, the iType font engine provides OEMs, operators, application providers and developers the ability to build products efficiently that can quickly generate highly legible text. Based on TrueType® and OpenType® industry-standard font formats, the iType font engine also works with Monotype Imaging’s WorldType® Layout Engine, a software library that enables the composition, positioning and rendering of multilingual text, including complex scripts such as Arabic, Hindi and Thai.

The iType font engine supports innovative features such as Monotype Imaging’s patent-pending SmartHint™ technology, designed to enable the high-quality display of East Asian characters scaled to small sizes. The technology combines new methods involving character fine-tuning and compression/decompression techniques, without the necessity to incorporate embedded bitmaps to handle the clear display of small-sized text.

Mobile developers and designers may also license typefaces from Monotype Imaging’s ESQ® Mobile collection which features designs fine-tuned for optimal display on cell phones. Sourced from the company’s Monotype®, ITC® and Linotype® libraries, fonts can be licensed to complement themes for user interfaces, applications and content. ESQ Mobile fonts for East Asian markets are based on Monotype Imaging’s stroke-based font technology, enhanced with the company’s SmartHint technique. The iType font engine also supports custom typefaces, bitmaps, embedded bitmaps and font subsets.

About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close cooperative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q3 2006, 13 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators. To date, more than 100 million Symbian smartphones have shipped cumulatively. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea and Japan). Information about Symbian and its products can be found at www.symbian.com

About Monotype Imaging

Based in Woburn, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Germany (Linotype), Mt. Prospect, Ill., Redwood City, Calif., Boulder, Colo., Japan and China, Monotype Imaging is a leading global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers of consumer electronics devices, including laser printers, copiers, mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, digital cameras, and operating system and software application vendors. Monotype Imaging technologies are combined with access to more than 9,000 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 designs, direct sales or e-commerce Web sites. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions that support all of the world’s major languages. Information about the company and its products can be found at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk.

Monotype, iType, WorldType and ESQ are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. SmartHint and Fonts.com are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. Times New Roman is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. Symbian and all Symbian-based marks are trademarks of Symbian Software Limited. ITC is a registered trademark and ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation. Linotype and Helvetica are registered trademarks of Linotype GmbH in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. OpenType is a either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the U. S. and/or other countries. TrueType is a registered trademark or Apple, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2007 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved.