When I released Lerku on November 7th, 2006, I was drawing inspiration from Morris Fuller Benton’s Bold Antique. I really liked that typeface and wanted to create something fun based on it. It’s got OpenType ligatures to make varied letter pair combinations. In June 2021, I gave Lerku a bit of a tune-up. I removed some outdated characters and adjusted the vertical metrics for better cross-browser compatibility. There’s not much more to Lerku, really. It’s a simple concept executed in a way that I hope designers find useful and fun to work with.