Streamline your creative process: Tips for faster, smarter work

The problem: Lack of control over which fonts designers use can lead to inconsistent font use and, ultimately, licensing compliance issues and brand inconsistencies.

How to use Monotype Fonts to solve this: By assigning bespoke permissions and roles to designers to ensure they always use the right fonts.

If you’re an admin, maintain visual consistency in your projects by sharing font lists and folders with your creative team, ensuring they can access the right fonts for whatever they’re working on. From here, creatives can sync these fonts and activate them in their design apps using the Monotype Desktop App.

You don’t want a designer to go rogue on a rebrand, so you can use the folder structure to ensure only approved fonts get used in certain projects. Tip: Group projects into folders, with everything related to that project (fonts lists, web projects, etc.) beneath it. When you need to collaborate, you can simply share the folder, and all the assets in that folder will also be shared. Instead of going through fonts one by one for approval, you can assign people to a project and provide them with all the assets they need in a single click.

Tip: You can choose whether designers can sync any font, or just fonts shared with them. If needed, customize user permissions to decide exactly who can sync which fonts, share which lists, and create which folders. You can assign these permissions in the Teams and Roles sections. You can even create custom Teams to group users by their permissions. 
For example, the Freelance Team might not be able to share font lists, and might only be able to sync fonts from lists that were shared with them. Meanwhile, your Brand Design Team might have full permissions to create folders/lists and sync any font they choose from the Monotype Fonts Library.

For more info on user management, including setting access permissions for users and teams, review our Help Center article and our FAQs on the subject.