I released Sappy Mugs on February 25, 2004. The idea came from my habit of filling office whiteboards with quick, often absurd sketches while working in the video game industry. I later transferred that same energy to a drawing tablet, producing a set of small illustrations that I compiled into a dingbat font.
At first, Sappy Mugs appeared only as a hidden page on my website, intended as a kind of Easter egg for those who happened to find it. A few years later, I placed it on free font sites. The drawings were spontaneous and lighthearted, much like the whiteboard doodles that inspired them.
Sappy Mugs was released with a free commercial use desktop license. In August 2020, I placed it in the public domain.