I'm guessing this number is around 1.1? That is to say, the vast majority of type design groups, people who work together daily on type design and development, number one person. And there are several thousand of these? Then are a hundred or so with 2, and a dozen that are many more than 2? What do you think?
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Now to get this hooked up to Chartwell.
It’s all good.
I don't know Ruxandra, so feel free to forward that info to her.
A: One, but they will need to know how tight you want it.
Here’s the chart for foundry size:
313 foundries are represented in Ruxandra’s 2013 census. We’ll certainly be increasing that count in the next edition. This census doesn’t exactly answer your question, because it includes those at a foundry who are not directly involved with type development. So the numbers would be even smaller.
The one-person foundry would be narrow and quite tall. The 26+-person foundry would be wide and short.
Then the area of the bars might give some sense of the relative numbers of people working in each environment.
But the corollary of course is that there are far fewer type design operations for CJK languages than for Latin, so the impact on the global average will likely be small.
May I suggest that in future revisions the in-text footnotes are made clickable? That would be handy