Dave Crossland


I am a professional systems administrator, graphic designer and public speaker.

Hacker culture was irresistible to me, growing up in the suburban arcadia of south west England in the 1990s. But "being good with computers" pointed towards a future that looked a lot like Office Space, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics.

Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to the BA Interaction Design programme at Ravensbourne College, London. By the time I graduated with First class honours in 2006, I had become fascinated with the potential of free software for graphic design and typography.

Free software was awesome, but where were the fonts? I decided to spend the next 10 years sorting that out.

In 2009 I graduated from the University of Reading's MA Typeface Design programme. Today I'm traveling widely, thanks to the CouchSurfing project, and running workshops on typeface design with free software along the way.

I also happen to believe that anyone can learn to draw, and Transition Towns is really important.

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8 January 2010, 5:06 am

Moglen on GPL business

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31 October 2009, 5:56 pm

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5 October 2009, 3:57 pm

Closed For Business

Understanding Limited is no longer taking on new clients or projects. ...

21 July 2009, 6:49 am

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20 July 2009, 11:44 am

Type Designer says naked fonts are the path to quality web type

Always thoughtful David B?ezina just posted a very important comment on the I Love Typography blog post attempting to summarise the web fonts issue: First of all, John thank you for the summary! It wa...

15 July 2009, 2:02 pm

IE market share collapsing!

TechCrunch reports that IE’s market share collapsed this year, from 3/4 to 1/2! Yay....

9 July 2009, 10:33 am

Ruppert’s letter from President Carter

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8 July 2009, 7:54 pm

Cantarell: First remix

I published Cantarell on Monday, and here at Wednesday I have my first remix :-) I hope Pierre will publish the outlines soon :-)...

6 July 2009, 6:23 pm

Behadad on the free software Text Rendering stack

Nicolas Mailhot noted on the fedora font list that Behdad Esfabod has published a quick summary of the Text Rendering stack state - slides and text....

1 July 2009, 12:43 pm

Hitler Jokes

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30 June 2009, 8:26 pm

Web Fonts Arrive! Firefox 3.5 is out!

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26 June 2009, 9:49 am

The Core of the Copyfight

Over on the PHD-DESIGN mailing list, Lars Albinsson asked, “In Sweden there is a huge debate on copyrights vs sharing on the Internet. (Swedes managed to both start the Pirate Bay, allegedly the...

4 June 2009, 11:14 am

Print is dying fast, I suspect collapse psychology afoot.

TechCrunch reports that the newspaper industry has had an unprecedented drop in revenues in the first quarter of this year. Print is dying fast. I wouldn’t be suprised if they pretend everythi...

28 May 2009, 1:28 pm

New Interview with Mike Ruppert

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27 May 2009, 10:58 am

Moblin 2.0

Intel’s distribution of GNU/Linux, Moblin, is very nice: ...

24 May 2009, 12:05 am

Off the cliff we go

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19 May 2009, 4:02 pm

UK Government Approves DRM

A while ago I signed a petition to the UK Prime Minster’s office against DRM, and a response came back today. Not good and containing plenty of nonsense, sadly. The petition was: We the undersi...

14 May 2009, 6:48 pm

Guardian Editor in Chief: “Newspapers are going to die”

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7 May 2009, 3:30 pm

How to force reading EULAs

The LGM2009 inGIMP talk is awesome - the second half about “arresting graphic design” was really smart: they figured out how to influence people to actually bother reading EULAs :-)...

1 May 2009, 7:38 pm

2009-03-07 John Taylor Gatto on “Open Source Education”

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1 May 2009, 12:04 pm

Fun: Univers Revolved

Here is an interesting way of checking the curves in a typeface: ...

30 April 2009, 4:46 pm

Can anyone into Libre Fonts attend Open Translation Tools 2009?

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26 April 2009, 11:19 pm

Swine Flu in North America

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22 April 2009, 12:26 am

Web fonts starts bubbling merrily: “Fuck the foundries”

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18 April 2009, 2:06 pm

Mike Ruppert’s Energy Policy Book: May 1st

Mike Ruppert’s new book, “A Presidential Energy Policy,” is out on May 1st. This will be followed by a new documentary about his work from the guys who did The Yes Men, which was go...