Educated at the Royal Academy (KABK) in The Hague, multilingual Dutchman Jacques Le Bailly did his first professional type design jobs when he was still a student.
Linotype hired him to help design Euro glyphs for their type library; he designed some 300 Euros in all. From 1999 to 2003, Le Bailly lived in Berlin, working at Moniteurs graphic design studio and as an independent graphic designer.