Dave Crossland is an English type designer, best known for his work to cultivate a free culture of typography around the world. He started the Cantarell project, a set of beautiful contemporary Humanist sans serif fonts intended for on-screen reading, while a graduate student in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading. Cantarell is now the typeface of the GNOME desktop, and is seen on the web over 5M times per day. Dave is currently working as ‘Font Consultant’ to Google, and has commissioned hundreds of typefaces from designers around the world for Google Fonts.