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Key executives included historian and adviser Stanley Morison, publicity manager Beatrice Warde, engineering expert Frank Hinman Pierpont, and draughtsman Fritz Stelzer. Associated designers include Eric Gill and Berthold Wolpe. Went into receivership in 1992. Bailed out by Microsoft \u201cin exchange for allowing any or all of the entire MT library to be embeddable in Microsoft products\u201d [Griffin].\n\n3. Monotype Imaging Inc. The successor to Monotype Corporation Ltd. was acquired by Agfa-Compugraphic in 1999 and renamed Agfa Monotype. Acquired ITC in 2000 and launched Fonts.com as font distribution website in 2001. Acquired the Image Club typeface library (EyeWire) in mid-2003. Acquired by TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston in 2004, and incorporated as Monotype Imaging. Bought back Ascender Corp. in 2010, which had been formed by former employees in 2004, \u201ctaking with them quite a few major clients like Microsoft, Google, Blackberry and a few car companies.\u201d [Griffin] Acquired by HGGC, another private equity firm, in 2019. Monotype acquired Linotype GmbH (2006), China Type Design Ltd. (2006), Ascender Corp. (2010), Bitstream Inc. incl. the major font distributor MyFonts (2012), distribution rights to typefaces by Stone Type Foundry (Dec. 2013) and The Foundry (Jan. 2014), the other major font distributor FontShop incl. the FontFont library (2014), Fontsmith (2020), URW (2020), Hoefler & Co. 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