I released Nulshock on May 30, 2014. I admired Good Times but felt it carried too much of its Pontiac lettering origin, so I wanted to design something with similar capsule shapes that was entirely my own. I named it after a spell from the Final Fantasy games. The letterforms have a wide, techno feel, with a touch of the NASA worm logo’s simplicity, but the focus was on building a sans serif family with clear mechanical curves and carefully balanced proportions.

The original release included seven weights and a set of mathematical and currency symbols. Nulshock Bold was distributed with a free commercial-use desktop license, while the other weights were paid. On July 7, 2022, I expanded the family with oblique styles. They weren’t simple slants; I adjusted the stems to compensate for distortion caused by skewing. That update also introduced more currency symbols, improved the OpenType fractions feature, removed deprecated characters, corrected reversed quotation marks, and refined spacing and kerning. A further update on November 17, 2024, reorganized the weight naming to make the system clearer.

I haven’t seen Nulshock adopted in any notable projects, but I’ve always regarded it as a stronger effort than Good Times in terms of balance and precision. It remains part of my catalog as a structured, versatile techno family.