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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
In a Mastodon post, @"Erik van Blokand" enlightened us with the concept of the private equity roll up.3 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
$200M net sounds artificially inflated. But even if it is real, after TDA it would be about $100M, and after salaries and expenses it would be even less. $4B means they're asking for a multiplie…5 -
Re: font creation - the usual process and computer software programs used
There was a bitmap master workflow chart somewhere here on the board. I can't seem to find it on my workstation. But it's basically: A) design stage 0. an idea, on paper or the desktop 1. H…2 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
So, because of this news, let’s assume that whatever Monotype has done, said, promised in the past two years was aimed to achieve this.3 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I wonder how much of that $4 Billion will be from organized crime's money laundry?0 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
I’ve been thinking this since early this year when they started pushing the new distribution agreement. The terms were so heavily tilted in their favor—especially against competing distributors—that …6 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Rather than auctioning the company, I think it would be more interesting—and way more fun!—if Monotype’s owners were to auction the font IP, family-by-family, in random order. Let’s find out what’s a…6 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Frutiger claimed that the widths of the Selectric Composer fonts were indeed modeled after Times. Only when IBM engaged him to adapt Univers for the Composer, he did some research to find better, un…4 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
From conversations at ATypI and TypeCon, I think a lot of us presumed this was coming, and that the push to acquire of other foundries’ font IP was to get as many notional assets onto the books befor…8 -
"HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/hggc-explores-4-billion-sale-of-typeface-firm-monotype-1.1977866 - bold emphasis mine: Related: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/ https://www.lifelitter.org/…6
