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Re: How big is the type design industry?
Frank, I should clarify what I meant by "cheap". Of course I didn't mean "cheap" in an absolute sense, because no such thing exists. Yet the cost of digital type design is almost …2 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Type design outside Asia is done in relatively small teams. Given that most cost of type design is labor, it's still pretty cheap. Most type design projects wouldn't take more than 3 man-years, so th…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
For 2016, Monotype reported $100M revenue for their OEM business and $100M for Creative Professionals, which includes various sales of both Monotype's own and third-party fonts (my wild guess is that…3 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
If the global graphic design industry yields $50B/year and the type industry 1% of that — that’s decent, actually excellent, given that the digital type industry has an excellent gains distribution t…5 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
At Monotype, OEM is $100M and CP is $100M. I think custom font development is split there, because software vendors get their custom type visa OEM while branding agencies get it via CP. Asian CJK typ…3
