I released Stupefaction on June 9, 1998. The name was taken from a song by Graham Parker and the Rumour. The design was created through an experimental process: I first produced it as a bitmap, then applied blur and sharpen effects in Photoshop before tracing the result into vector form. This method produced letterforms with irregular, bone-like terminals.
An alternate shadowed version was produced with outlines and drop shadows, though I later set it aside, as the primary version already had a distinctive appearance. Stupefaction was not designed with readability in mind but as an experimental display typeface that did not fit into conventional stylistic categories.
I initially released Stupefaction with a free commercial desktop license. In November 2022, I placed it into the public domain.