I released Teeshirt on January 21, 2008. The goal was to make a typeface that captured the feel of 1980s t-shirt lettering—casual, heavy, and slightly imperfect—without relying on Cooper Black. I used American Typewriter from 1971 as a starting point, but I redrew it, added characters that weren’t in the catalog scan, and introduced deliberate misalignments. I then layered on texture so it would resemble fabric prints. The OpenType ligatures were designed to mimic the natural variation of letters transferring unevenly onto cloth.

The original release included the Regular style. On November 13, 2009, I added a second style, Pressed, at the request of a customer who wanted a more orderly look. Both styles were always commercial.

On June 25, 2021, I updated Teeshirt by removing deprecated characters and fixing an inconsistency between space and non-breaking space widths. That was the only update, and the family has not been revised since. Teeshirt has not appeared in notable projects but remains in my catalog as a display font rooted in retro print aesthetics.