Ray Larabie

Designer
Ottawa, Canada · 1996–present
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7
Families
7
Styles
7
Total versions
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About

Ottawa-born designer who began releasing freeware in 1996 and became the freeware era's hit-maker: his Pricedown became the Grand Theft Auto wordmark, Coolvetica (1999) was a generation's free Helvetica, and a modified Neuropol carried the 2006 Winter Olympics.

He turned professional in 2001, founding Typodermic Fonts (now based in Nagoya, Japan); later work includes Superclarendon, bundled with macOS, and the Canada 150 typeface. Only a handful of his fonts sit under this FontSpace profile — the early freeware catalog is scattered across the web's archives, which is how the era distributed work.

Released through

Labels and entities Ray Larabie has published via.

Larabie FontsHis freeware label, 1996–2001
Typodermic FontsThe commercial foundry he founded in 2001 — a separate entity with its own catalog

Links

RoleDesigner
LocationOttawa, Canada
Active1996–present
License mixacross 7 families — which way this catalog leans
Freeware 7 · 100%Commercial 0 · 0%Unknown 0 · 0%

Catalog

7 styles · one row per style, current version only.

Squealer
Squealer · Display · 1997
Squealer
Freeware
Holy Smokes
Holy Smokes · Display · 1999
Holy Smokes
Freeware
Buxotic
Buxotic · Display · 2000
Buxotic
Freeware