I released Caldstone on January 31, 2025. At the time, I considered it my final typeface after nearly thirty years of making fonts. By then, I had noticed that even free releases no longer drew much attention, and the effort needed to promote new display fonts didn’t make sense anymore. Caldstone became a way of closing that chapter.

The design grew from my interest in both psychedelic lettering and the Edwardian revival. I started by drawing the Extra-Bold Expanded style, building a sans serif with decorative curls and spurs more typical of serif faces. Those features were drawn manually; they aren’t mechanically precise, but they appear consistent. When I created the other masters, I used a written system of offsets to scale the ornaments appropriately across weights and widths. The variable version includes three axes—width, weight, and slant—all of which can be combined freely.

Caldstone hasn’t been updated since its release, and as of September 2025, I haven’t sold a single copy. That outcome confirmed my decision to step away from new font production.