I released Outright on July 22, 1998. I first called it Outright Televism. The design was a 1990s techno interpretation of an art nouveau style; it had blocky shapes, irregular counters, and flared elements. I wanted the forms to echo both the stylized lettering of the 1960s and the vector-driven styles that were widely used in the 1990s.
I originally distributed it with a free commercial-use desktop license. In August 2020, I placed Outright in the public domain, making it freely available to use or modify.