Fonts were a late concern on the free desktop. As late as 2004, free fonts were almost non-existent, and the few that existed were of low quality. Yet a decade later, hundreds of free-license fonts are available on sites like Google Fonts [1] and the Open Font Library [2]. However, no site is known for quality more than The League of Moveable Type [3], a site dedicated to promoting free fonts and educating users about typography.

Billing itself as "the first free font foundry," The League of Moveable Type was founded in 2009 by Micah Rich as a spinoff from the A Good Company [4] design studio. Rich's education was in motion graphics and graphic design, so he describes his education in typography as "pretty practical and traditional." However, he adds, "I was interested in the web, too, and ended up using my senior thesis to teach myself more than just web design. I got into Ruby and Rails and a handful of other tools, and the community in those things are so open and sharing. My programming background has really influenced how I think about things."

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