It's easy to see why web designers would want free, high-quality fonts. But why would an independent type designer open source their work? Just as in open source software, the reasons vary.

He designed the lowercase letter ‘a’ with a very extreme ... was instantly recognisable and the package was beautiful. Seymour proceeded to design a whole font of drip-bottom characters. The font ...

The new letters were created in Adobe Illustrator and made to work together in Fontlab. Every type designer has a favorite character, and Diesel says he often judges a font by its "g." Silent Film ...