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Re: Monotype Nabs $1.45 Billion Debt Package for Owner Payout
@JoyceKetterer On the one hand, Monotype was in a strong market share position as far as owning fonts, and the private equity owners may have thought buying up more mid-size libraries makes them look…2 -
Re: Monotype Nabs $1.45 Billion Debt Package for Owner Payout
Monotype’s $1.2B debt is reportedly getting interest charged at about 5.5% over SOFR, which is to say a floating rate that is currently about 10.81%, or about $130M/year. Their last reported earnings…8 -
Re: TrueType font that just contains a bitmap font
> Should the units per em always be 2048 for TrueType fonts? Absolutely not, unless you are making the font for a client who insists on it. Instead, make your UPM a multiple of your pixel grid (o…3 -
Re: Monotype Nabs $1.45 Billion Debt Package for Owner Payout
Although it is about half refinancing, the owners are taking out $600 million as a dividend, which appears to approximately double the company’s previous debt to $1.2 billion, if I read the details c…4 -
Re: Monotype Nabs $1.45 Billion Debt Package for Owner Payout
This scale of debt-financed payout to the owner of the company is not ideal for the long-term financial health of said company.1
