I have been writing all-caps in marker pens for as long as I have been making things. The proportions, the angles, the way the strokes thin and thicken when I move quickly; that is a voice I keep reaching for in design work, and I kept hand-lettering the same shapes over and over.

So I drew the alphabet once on a clean spread, scanned it, and pulled it into Glyphs. A few weekends of cleanup and spacing later it was an OpenType font with full A-Z, 0-9, and the punctuation that does the most work in poster headlines.

The first place it showed up was the wordmark for an iOS app I was prototyping. Then it became the family name on a few Christmas cards, then the headline on a poster for the Texas Arts Project. Once it lived in a font file the friction was zero. I could type a sentence in my own handwriting in the time it used to take to letter the first word.

Putting it under the Open Font License was the part I cared about most. It is my handwriting; I would rather other people make things with it than guard it.