I released Snidely on October 6, 1997. It was created by drawing the characters with a pen, scanning them, and tracing the results digitally. The design produced curly letterforms, but the spacing and proportions were inconsistent. Characters often collided in awkward ways, and the overall flow of the alphabet was not cohesive.

In retrospect, Snidely illustrated the importance of testing letterforms in context and building a set where all characters relate harmoniously. It was one of my early experiments, and I regard it as an unsuccessful effort.

Snidely was initially distributed with a free commercial desktop license. In August 2020, I placed it into the public domain.