The League of Moveable Type
Making good type open to everyone
Project: Self-initiated
Role: Co-Founder & Type Designer
Scope: Concept Development, Visual Identity, Type Design
Additional Credits: Micah Rich, Co-Founder
The League of Moveable Type is an open-source type foundry built on the idea that free fonts could also be thoughtfully designed, high-quality typefaces.
I co-founded The League with designer Micah Rich at a moment when web typography was rapidly evolving. We saw an opportunity to build a curated library of thoughtfully designed typefaces that anyone could use, while contributing to a growing culture of better typography on the web.
I designed several of the typefaces that formed The League’s original collection, including Junction, League Gothic, and League Spartan. These early releases helped establish the foundry’s library and have since been expanded by other type designers into larger families.
Open-source by design
From the beginning, The League was about more than simply giving fonts away for free. We wanted the fonts themselves to remain open: people could access the source files, modify the typefaces, and build on the work themselves.
By releasing the collection under an open-source license, new adaptations could become part of the same shared ecosystem—allowing the typefaces to continue evolving through the work of other designers.
Junction
The first typeface in The League’s library was Junction, a humanist sans-serif I’d designed.
The open-source approach allowed Junction to continue evolving, and it has since grown into a family of three styles.
Revival typefaces
I designed two revival typefaces for The League's catalogue: League Gothic and League Spartan, contemporary interpretations of classic typefaces we admired.
League Gothic has since grown to four styles, and League Spartan to nine.
