I released Vinque Antique on January 15, 2020 as a companion to Vinque. While Vinque had a clean finish, Vinque Antique was drawn to appear weathered, with softened and irregular outlines. To reinforce the effect, I added randomized alternates for many letters, implemented through OpenType contextual alternates, so that repeated characters would vary in appearance.

The family was a commercial release from the start and was never free. I designed it for both display and text applications, though its distressed qualities make it more natural at larger sizes. Vinque Antique has not appeared in notable projects.

On September 6, 2024, I updated the family to version 1.1. That release fixed a line-break bug that had affected some applications and modernized the style names to align with current software standards. No other technical changes were made.