I released Stitchen on February 1, 1997. It was intended to resemble a sans serif design such as Helvetica but altered to appear as though the letters were constructed with stitched lines. The original version had significant spacing problems that limited its practical use.
The typeface was first released under the name “Stitch and Bitch,” taken from the gatherings my aunt and her friends held where they would sew and talk informally. The term was used in the sense of “to complain,” but some found it offensive, and I decided to change the name to Stitchen.
Stitchen was initially distributed with a free commercial desktop license. In August 2020, I placed it into the public domain.