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21 September 2026

Of the 648 designers whose school and workplace have both been identified, 296 work in a different country from the one they trained in. That is 46%. Type design is a field where roughly half the people leave the country that taught them.

— Mark Johnson, Type.lol
A globe turned to the Atlantic, threaded with arcs running from where type designers trained to where they now work — a dense knot converging on The Hague and western Europe, with long strands reaching New York, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.
© Type.lol