I released Euphorigenic on October 15, 1999. It was created under unusual conditions: I designed it entirely on a Palm Pilot during my bus and train commutes. The software wasn’t meant for font creation, so I could only view one glyph at a time on a small, low-resolution screen. That process gave the typeface a disharmonic quality, since I couldn’t see how the characters related to one another until much later.

Structurally, Euphorigenic was a slab serif with traits drawn from Clarendon. I included ball terminals and details like a wavy-bottomed “2,” which gave it a playful irregularity. The font consisted of a single style, and while I made gradual technical improvements over the years—adjusting spacing, kerning, accents, and punctuation—it has remained essentially the same design I drew on the Palm Pilot.

I released it with a free commercial-use license, which helped it spread. In April 2024, I placed it into the public domain. Euphorigenic never became widely known but has remained in circulation as a niche choice, often valued for the same imperfections that came from its unconventional design process.