I released Meloriac on March 8, 2007, after seeing an experimental unicase treatment of Avant Garde Gothic in a Vancouver entertainment magazine. That sparked the idea of pushing a geometric sans serif to the limit of weight and proportion. The goal was to see how much mass the letters could carry before the forms broke down. The ‘S’ was the most difficult; its spine could only be thickened so far before the curves collapsed.

Meloriac is not a strict unicase but something in between. Only the lowercase ‘e’ was included as a deliberate lowercase form, while the rest of the alphabet followed uppercase models. I tightened the spacing and kerning to emphasize a 1970s feel. It was conceived entirely as a display face, not for text.

I also included Katakana, though my inexperience with Japanese showed in their structural inaccuracies. As a kana-only font, it had little practical use. Later, I added Greek and Cyrillic support, which broadened its usability. Meloriac became popular in informal contexts and has been widely adopted in YouTube video thumbnails, which gave it unexpected visibility.

On May 2021, I updated the font by refining OpenType features and removing obsolete characters. It remains a paid release.