I released Domyouji on April 29, 2007, in response to a commission from Bioware for their Mass Effect series. The goal was to create a body text companion to Korataki, another commissioned font for the game. I modeled the proportions on Handel Gothic, a familiar square techno typeface, but drew the actual shapes from Korataki to ensure consistency between the two designs.

Because Mass Effect was developed during the PlayStation 2 era, I had to account for CRT display limitations. Drawing from my experience with Affluent and Cinecav, I adjusted the forms so they would hold up in small sizes on low-resolution screens. Rounded characters were flattened at the top with abrupt slopes to avoid problematic near-horizontal lines. The design combines soft curves with sharp corners to maintain legibility while preserving a futuristic style.

The family consisted of four styles: Regular, Italic, Dirty, and Spraypaint. On June 25, 2021, I released an update that removed deprecated characters, corrected quotation marks, and adjusted vertical metrics for browser compatibility. Its primary use was in Mass Effect, and I haven’t seen it appear widely outside the game.

Domyouji also served as the structural basis for Alepholon. That project began while I was still refining Domyouji for Bioware, and I reused some of the underlying glyph shapes and metrics to create a separate typeface with a different purpose.