Larabie grew up in the Ottawa Valley and studied animation at Sheridan College, where he also sat in on graphic design classes. While working in the video game industry in the 1990s, he taught himself font design as a hobby. Those early fonts were free because they were “terrible,” he says, but by 2001, he was creating fonts he could sell. He now runs his own company, Typodermic Fonts, where he sells typefaces and sometimes makes free ones “for kicks.”