I released Hurry Up on September 20, 1998 as a display typeface. The idea came from Ed Emberley’s 1977 book Great Thumbprint Drawing Book. While the book focused on thumbprint art, the lettering inside had a casual, cartoon style that I wanted to capture. I scanned examples, traced them, and used those shapes as the basis for the design. The result was a loose, hand-drawn look that borrowed from the spirit of children’s instructional illustration rather than from polished type.
Hurry Up was released with a free commercial use desktop license. Over the years, I’ve seen it appear here and there, though never in especially notable applications. On April 2024, I placed it into the public domain.