I released Ohitashi on November 9, 2006. The design is a brush-style script influenced by the lettering used on automobile emblems from the 1970s and early 1980s. I was interested in translating that sleek, stylized feel into a font that could work in display settings as well as in larger blocks of text. The name came from Japanese cuisine: ohitashi is a simple dish of boiled vegetables seasoned with soy sauce, and I thought the sound of the word suited the typeface.

The font was intended for display and larger text sizes rather than for continuous reading. In 2021, I revised the family by removing outdated characters such as L with dot, E with breve, and a few others, while also correcting reversed quotation marks. The update refined compatibility across software but didn’t change the general appearance of the design.

Ohitashi has always been distributed as a paid typeface, and I haven’t seen it used in notable projects. It remains in my catalog as one of the brush-inspired designs that connects automotive aesthetics to a script font context.