My passion for type design arose out of a general dissatisfaction with the quality of freeware/shareware typefaces available on the Internet, many of which were of the "grunge" and "handwriting" variety. I started designing typefaces in the mid 90's using a program called TypeSmith for the Amiga, which came free on a magazine coverdisk, and I quickly became hooked. The goal was to create high-quality multi-purpose fonts that would not look out of place as body text in a magazine.
Since those early days, I've migrated to FontLab and haven't looked back.