I released Libel Suit on September 26, 1999. The design came from studying the Westinghouse logotype designed by Paul Rand in 1960, particularly the distinctive W. I used a modular construction with unusual details such as a lowercase g that departed from convention and diagonally cut stroke ends. The first release was a Regular style, which I made free for commercial use.
In 2005 I cleaned up the outlines, but the major change came in 2012 when I rebuilt the family. At that point I expanded it into six weights with italics, added Greek and Cyrillic support, and introduced OpenType features such as ordinals, fractions, and stylistic alternates. I also included an alternate g that softened the modular appearance. Those added styles were sold, while the Regular remained free.
On May 12, 2021, I refined Libel Suit by removing deprecated characters, fixing quotation marks, and adjusting guillemot spacing. On November 19, 2024, version 7.2 reorganized the weight names: Book was renamed Light, Light became Extra-Light, Extra-Light became Thin, and Ultra-Light was renamed Hairline. That update also corrected weight value data so the fonts sorted properly in menus.
Libel Suit has appeared occasionally in projects, most notably in the 2014 game Terrance the Flying Eyeball. Although not widely recognized, it remains one of my more substantial families, combining influences from mid-century corporate identity with later technical refinements.