I released Karma on November 9, 1998 as a free typeface. My aim was to capture the feel of bitmap fonts from the Windows console, the kind you could generate by adjusting system settings in the 1990s. I created two versions at the outset: Karma Suture and Karma Future. The name “Karma Suture” came from a song by The Monochrome Set, while “Future” was chosen simply as an easy rhyme.

On January 31, 2022, I rebuilt Karma with significant changes. Many characters were redesigned, and I reworked the spacing and kerning so that they aligned to pixel increments, preserving the low-resolution atmosphere. I also expanded the language support, added longer fractions, and corrected the encoding of reversed left quotation marks. A couple of weeks later, Karma Future, the outlined style, received its own adjustments to spacing and kerning. In November 2022, I placed Karma into the public domain.

The typeface has always existed as two styles, Suture and Future, and it was never widely used in design or publishing. For me, it remains a small project tied to the early days of bitmap nostalgia.