As one of the largest type design companies in the world, Monotype owns Helvetica, Futura, and Gill Sans — among 250,000 other fonts. Monotype isn’t alone in this kind of speculation. All over the art and design space, creatives are joining the ongoing gold rush to find the use case of AI in type design. That’s not to say Dalton Maag rejects AI; the assistive potential of AI is significant. Both Nix and Akay agree a similar crash around AI might actually be beneficial in pushing some of those venture capitalist interests out of AI.