I introduced Letter Set on April 6, 1999. The design was based on a set of ceramic letters I found at a garage sale in Mississauga, originally used by amateur filmmakers in the 1960s for titles and credits. I scanned the letters on a flatbed scanner, applied digital effects, and autotraced the results. I intentionally left the forms unrefined to retain their stark appearance. The name was a literal description as well as a play on “Letraset.”

I originally distributed Letter Set with a free commercial-use desktop license. In August 2020, I placed it in the public domain.