I released Vectipede on August 3, 2010. The idea was to build a slab serif on a super-elliptical framework, giving the letters squarish proportions with softened corners. The design was intended for both display and text settings, though its geometric construction makes it more distinctive at larger sizes.

From the beginning, Vectipede was a commercial release and was never distributed for free. The name came from an obscure 1980s video game called Vectipede—I liked how it sounded technical and slightly aggressive, even if the connection was loose. The family included weights with both upright and italic styles.

On June 25, 2021, I issued a technical update. Deprecated characters were removed, reversed quotes were corrected, and the OpenType fractions feature was improved to handle longer numerators and denominators. I also adjusted vertical metrics and refined some outlines, but the overall appearance of the typeface was unchanged. Later, on November 22, 2024, I reorganized the weight names to better comply with current application standards and to improve menu sorting and web embedding. That update required internal name table changes, which meant users sometimes had to reselect fonts in documents after installing the new version.