Yesterday, the American company Monotype, which owns the rights to the popular fonts Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, and Tahoma, announced the suspension of cooperation with Russian companies. However, this does not mean that Russian users will suddenly find themselves without fonts. First, only the website is closed, and Microsoft has the license for these fonts, so they are included in the office software package and available to all MS Office users. Secondly, there are 11 fonts which are compatible with the common Monotype fonts. And besides, they are free of charge.
“The current set consists of 11 fonts and 24 outlines. Their use makes it possible to avoid distortions and disturbances in the structure of the document, and to keep the number of lines, the arrangement of tables and headings the same. Their unique feature is compatibility with common Monotype fonts, which allows you to preserve the original formatting and layout of documents previously created using popular foreign fonts. The fonts can be useful to both ordinary users and organizations of any size,” said the developer of the Russian office software MoiOffice.
Pyotr Scheglov, director of product marketing at MoyOffice, noted that the company is the first and only domestic office software producer that developed and presented a set of XO_Fonts fonts back in 2016; they are metric analogues of popular foreign fonts. According to Shcheglov, the fonts come together with MyOffice editors; they can also be downloaded for free from the developer’s website and used in any application.