10 Facts About Ray Larabie

Raymond Larabie was born on 1970 and is a Canadian designer of TrueType and OpenType computer fonts.

Ray Larabie graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in classical animation.

Ray Larabie moved to Nagoya, Japan in 2008; he maintains Canadian citizenship.

Ray Larabie released much of his Larabie Fonts library into the public domain in 2020 after he determined the designs were no longer of any commercial value.

Ray Larabie was employed at Rockstar Canada and had contributed his designs to multiple video game titles, including the hit series' Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne, before he quit the company in 2002 to focus full-time on type design.

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Ray Larabie primarily specializes in novelty typefaces that are intended for use in desktop publishing and graphic design.

Ray Larabie is particularly known for his “ubiquitous futuristic and sci-fi fonts”; Larabie specialized in that style early in his career because he felt that, other than a few examples such as Bank Gothic, Microgramma and Eurostile, the market for that style was underserved.

Ray Larabie's "Canada 150" is an extended version of his previous font Mesmerize with Cyrillic and First Nations alphabets included; it was commissioned by the Government of Canada to be the official typeface for the country's sesquicentennial.

Ray Larabie has drawn controversy for releasing fonts freely; other professional designers took particular umbrage at Canada 150, stating that the government should have paid for a professionally drawn type since, it was posited, a government has the money to do so.

Korataki, Ray Larabie's most purchased commercial font, is used in the wordmark for video game Mass Effect.