I released Sloe Gin Rickey on October 27, 1998. It was a structured script typeface named after the cocktail of the same name. The design shared elements with my earlier typeface Deftone Stylus, though Sloe Gin Rickey featured more elaborate wing-like flourishes. It was also connected to another of my projects, Kleptocracy, which explored similar structural ideas. Although it was less widely used than Deftone Stylus, Sloe Gin Rickey represented one of my efforts to expand on that stylistic direction.
The typeface was first distributed with a free commercial desktop license. In November 2022, I placed it into the public domain.