Welcome to Monocotype’s Licensing Page.
We make font licensing simple and easy to understand. Whether you’re creating a personal design, launching a product, or growing a brand, our clear and flexible options are designed to support your goals. You don’t need to worry about confusing terms or hidden limits.
If you need something tailored, custom licensing is also available.
🖥️ Desktop License
Best For: Individual creatives, students, hobbyists, or casual users who need fonts for personal projects or small-scale commercial use.
License Usage Details:
- Allowed for 1 user only.
- Font can be installed on up to 2 personal or work devices.
- Can be used for unlimited personal/non-commercial projects.
- Can be used for up to 5 commercial projects, as long as the font is not used in logos, logotypes, wordmarks, or taglines.
- Allowed for non-commercial social media posts (e.g., personal Instagram posts, student portfolios).
- Not allowed for any website usage, including embedding via @font-face or displaying on web pages.
- Commercial end products (e.g., prints, packaging, PDFs, digital downloads) are limited to 1,000 units total.
- Lifetime license — pay once, use forever.
- No redistribution or resale of the font file is allowed.
💼 Extended License
Best For: Professional designers, freelancers, design studios, or small businesses who work on multiple commercial projects across digital and print.
License Usage Details:
- Allowed for up to 20 users and 20 computer installations within one organization or team.
- Can be used for unlimited personal and commercial projects.
- Permitted for use in logos, logotypes, wordmarks, and taglines.
- Allowed for social media branding, promotion, and ads with unlimited impressions.
- Usage in e-books, PDFs, or other digital publications with unlimited downloads or titles.
- Commercial end products (e.g., t-shirts, posters, packaging) are allowed with no limit on number of units.
- Font embedding on unlimited websites via @font-face is permitted.
- Allowed for unlimited monthly website traffic and views.
- Commercial use in clothing, accessories, merchandise, packaging, and physical goods is permitted.
- Lifetime license — pay once, use forever.
- No redistribution or resale of the font file is allowed.
🚀 Enterprise License
Best For: Corporations, global brands, agencies, broadcasters, app developers, or companies needing full commercial and digital freedom.
License Usage Details:
- Unlimited users and installations across a company, agency, institution, or brand.
- Full rights for use in commercial, promotional, and client-facing projects.
- Approved for trademarked logos, official brand identities, and tagline usage.
- Allowed for use in e-books, digital publishing, PDFs, with unlimited downloads and titles.
- Includes usage in social media ads, video ads, and digital marketing campaigns, with unlimited reach and impressions.
- Permits use in film, video, TV, broadcast media, streaming content, and motion graphics.
- Usage in mobile apps, web apps, desktop games, and console games is fully permitted.
- Font may be embedded on servers for website/app usage.
- Permitted to build custom design tools, print-on-demand generators, or personalization platforms using the font.
- Full commercial use for clothing, merchandise, packaging, and product design with no limits on sales or volume.
- Includes all rights covered in Desktop & Extended licenses.
- Lifetime license — pay once, use forever.
- No redistribution or resale of the font file is allowed.
Single Line Font License
Best For: Engraving, laser cutting, pen plotting, and other machine-based designs.
This license applies to fonts designed with a single-line structure, intended specifically for use with machines such as laser cutters, engravers, CNC routers, pen plotters, and similar devices. These fonts do not contain outlines and are not suitable for printing or standard word processing.
Personal License
- Use on up to 2 computers and 2 personal devices
- For personal and non-commercial projects only
- Not allowed for resale, client work, or digital products
Commercial License
- Use on up to 2 computers and 2 machines
- Allowed for selling physical products and use in client work
- Digital designs must have outlined text (not editable)
- Font file cannot be shared, embedded, or modified
Note: This is a real single-line font made for machines, not for printing or standard text editing.
Custom Fonts & License Upgrades
Looking for more flexibility or something tailored to your project?
We offer custom licensing and font development services to meet your specific needs.
Our services include:
- Font modifications from our existing library
- Adding language/script support (e.g., Arabic, Cyrillic, Hanzi, and more)
- Designing exclusive custom fonts or logotypes
- Building enterprise-grade font kits and technical integrations
Want to upgrade your license?
No problem, you can upgrade at any time by simply paying the difference between your current license and the one you need. We’re here to make it seamless.
👉 Contact us to discuss a custom solution or start your upgrade.
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