I released Injekuta on July 12, 2007 as a paid display typeface. The design was influenced by the sleek look of automobile badge lettering, with compressed proportions and sharp curves meant to echo the way car emblems were styled in metal. I named it after the Japanese katakana rendering of “injector,” reflecting my early interest in Japanese lettering. The original version included a set of katakana characters, but at the time my understanding of Japanese typography was limited and the results were weak.

On July 20, 2021, I issued an update. I replaced the reversed left quotation marks, sometimes called painter’s quotes, with proper quotation marks, though the originals remain available under Unicode 201B and 201F. I corrected an inconsistency between the widths of the space and non-breaking space characters, and I removed deprecated and obsolete characters such as L with dot and E with breve. The katakana set was withdrawn, a narrow ellipsis was added, and the vertical metrics were adjusted to improve cross-browser compatibility, which increased the overall character size by about 10 percent. I also improved ogoneks and redesigned the barred H character.

Injekuta never found much use and sales remained poor. In November 2022, I released it into the public domain. For me, it was a reminder of how experiments in style and cross-cultural influence do not always result in lasting appeal.