The American company Monotype, which owns the rights to the Times New Roman and Arial fonts, has closed access to its library for users from Russia, Vedomosti reports, citing a source in one of the Russian IT companies.

It is noted that the Monotype library also includes fonts such as Verdana, Tahoma and Helvetica.

According to Vedomosti, the website of the American company is available in Russia, however, when trying to open a page with a catalog of fonts, the user sees a message that access is denied. "Probably, the owner of the site has set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site," the publication reports on the portal.

None of present managers or owners have anything to do with mentioned fonts, they are just riding copyright shit laws.