The beauty of it is that there's a history of changes to all our fonts, they're dead-easy to update, and - the most exciting part - anyone can make a fork (read: copy) of one of our fonts and do whatever they want with it. If you're not familiar, Github is a site that acts as a central place to keep your work, using a version control system called Git.

One of the interesting things we've been doing with The League (which will soon be translated to the website) is that we're moving everything to Github. That's one of the great things about the Open Font License, too - you're allowed to extend and build off OFL fonts that others have made. Often, the best way for a budding typographer to learn to build things is to mimic those who've come before. This means that it's a great font for the designer that needs flexibility and variety, but also that it's a great learning resource to understand how to build all different kinds of fonts.

Few open source families have as many weights and styles as this. Made by Santiago Orozco, part of what's so wonderful about Josefin Sans and Slab is its quality (it's very well-drawn), but part of its appeal is its completeness.

Despite this, Google has hired a few great freelance type designers (including a few League Contributors) to work on new fonts for its system, which is exciting and a wonderful way to support those who care so much about typography and their craft. Also, it often seems that Google's goal is more towards free fonts than towards open source and collaboration. There are fantastic benefits to the service - fast embedding, easy interface, no price tag - but it's sometimes difficult to find exactly what you're looking for. A relative newcomer to the scene, Google launched Google Web Fonts roughly a year ago, and it was completely unexpected.

History of orbitron font