Ray Larabie

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Ray Larabie (born 1970 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a prolific designer of computer TrueType and OpenType fonts. Beginning in 1996, Larabie distributed his designs over the internet as freeware. Many of his designs were inspired by corporate and rock band logos and whose names paid sly tribute to their sources:

Crystal Radio Kit - From the 1970s-vintage Radio Shack logo and named for a product once sold by that retailer.

King Richard - From the 1970s-vintage Plymouth logo. It is named for a nickname of racer Richard Petty who raced Plymouths for much of his career.

Gyparody - based on the well-known television game show Jeopardy.

Chinese Rocks - Inspired by lettering on a shipping carton of Chinese-made dinnerware and named for the 1977 punk rock song about heroin addiction.

Pastor Of Muppets - Derived from the 1980s-era logo of heavy metal group Metallica, the name is a parody of that group's song Master of Puppets

Other Larabie fonts, such as Degrassi and Electroharmonix, were creations of Ray Larabie’s own prolific imagination. Early designs were typically science fiction, futurist and techno-oriented, but he eventually produced fonts in a wide variety of styles, including pop culture, 70's retro, decorative, handwritten, experimental, weird and novelty faces.

Many of his designs would become commonly used in advertising, enjoying considerable popularity with the music and clothing industries.

Ray released over 400 freeware fonts before announcing in 2001 that he would focus exclusively on commercial fonts that he sold through his new type foundry Typodermic.

Larabie’s wide range of cultural themes and subject matter and prolific creative output ostensibly inspired numerous other amateur designers to create freeware fonts.

1 List of fonts
- 1.1 #
- 1.2 A
- 1.3 B
- 1.4 C
- 1.5 D
- 1.6 E
- 1.7 F
- 1.8 G
- 1.9 H
- 1.10 I
- 1.11 J
- 1.12 K
- 1.13 L
- 1.14 M
- 1.15 N
- 1.16 O
- 1.17 P
- 1.18 Q
- 1.19 R
- 1.20 S
- 1.21 T
- 1.22 U
- 1.23 V
- 1.24 W
- 1.25 X
- 1.26 Y
- 1.27 Z
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] List of fonts

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[edit] #

!Y2KBUG
1980 Portable
256 Bytes
6809 Chargen

[edit] A

Abberancy
Adriator
Affluent
Airmole
Alepholon
Algol
Alphii
Almonte
Anglepoise Lampshade (named after the Anglepoise lamp and a song by The Soft Boys)
Anklepants (based on the logotype used since the 1960s by Group W radio and TV stations)
Amienne (a brush script font)
Arnprior
Antihistory
Asterisp
Astron Boy
Axaxax

[edit] B

Baby Jeepers
Baileys Car
Baltar
Barbatrick
Baveuse
Beat My Guest
Berylium
Betsy Flanagan
Biometric Joe
Birdland Aeroplane
Biting My Nails
Borg 9
Boron
Braeside
Bramalea Beauty
Budmo
Bullpen
Burnstown Dam
Butterbelly

[edit] C

Capacitor
Carbon
Charles In Charge
Colourbars
Contour Generator
Coolvetica
Counterscraps
Crack Man
Cranberry Gin
Credit
Cretino
Crystal Radio Kit (inspired by the Radio Shack logo)
Cuomotype

[edit] D

Dazzle Ships
Deftone
Degrassi (Graffiti-styled font named for the television series Degrassi, one of numerous "Canadiana" references in his font names.)
Delta Hey Max Nine
Deluxe Ducks
Dendritic Voltage
Densmore
Deportees
Die Nasty
Dignity of Labour
Dirty Baker's Dozen
Dream Orphans
Droid
Duality
Dyspepsia

[edit] E

Earwig Factory
Echelon
Eden Mills
Edgewater
Edmunds
Effloresce
Electroharmonix (inspired by kana found on Japanese-made electronics)
Engebrechtre
Ennobled Pet
Ethnocentric
Euphorigenic

[edit] F

Fabian
Fadgod
Failed Attempt
Fake Receipt
First Blind
Fluoride Beings
Foo
Forgotten Futurist
Fragile Bombers
Frak
Frozen Dog Treats

[edit] G

Golden Girdle
Goodfish
Got No Heart
Grazkrak
Green Fuzz
Gunplay 3D
Gyparody

[edit] H

Hawkeye
Hello Larry

[edit] I

Induction
Instant Tunes

[edit] J

Jingopop
Joy Circuit
Joystix

[edit] K

Kenyan Coffee
Kicking Limos
Kimberley
King Richard (Resembles the 1970s-vintage Plymouth logo. It is named for racer Richard Petty who raced Plymouths for much of his career.)
Kirsty
Kredit

[edit] L

Lady Starlight
Let's Eat
Letter Set A
Lockergnome
Lunasequent

[edit] M

Map of You
Marquee Moon
Massive Retaliation
Metal Lord
Mexcellent 3D
Model Worker
Motorcade

[edit] N

Nasal
Nasalization
Neurochrome
New Brilliant

[edit] O

[edit] P

Paintboy
Pastor of Muppets (inspired by the 1980s-era logo of heavy metal group Metallica)
Peatloaf
Pricedown (based on the title art of the 1972-to-present rendition of The Price Is Right game show, and named by juxtaposing "Price" from the show's title and "Down" from the show's tagline, "Come on Down". The font is in turn used in title arts of later Grand Theft Auto computer and video games.)
Pupcat
Pyrite