I released Heroid on October 5, 2005 as a paid display typeface. The goal was to capture a comic book look, something I had tried earlier with Mufferaw and Gargle but never felt satisfied with. For Heroid, I curved the vectors to give the letters a pen-like quality, making it feel closer to the inked lettering I saw in 1970s Marvel and DC comics. I wasn’t imitating any one letterer; I used the era as a general guide.

The family started with regular and bold weights. I also added alternate caps to break up repetition and create the irregularity you’d expect in hand lettering. I always thought it worked better for comic-style text than my earlier efforts.

On June 18, 2021, I updated Heroid. I removed obsolete characters, fixed reversed quotation marks, and corrected some curve errors. I also adjusted a few Bézier points to balance shapes that had always looked slightly off to me, though those refinements are so subtle that they probably went unnoticed.

Heroid has not been used in published comics to my knowledge, but I still see it as a more successful attempt at the comic book aesthetic than its predecessors.