I created Winthorpe on April 29, 2007, for a client project. The name was a reference to the character from the film Trading Places, chosen for its formal, old-fashioned tone. The design followed transitional models, bridging old-style and modern features. It had higher contrast between thick and thin strokes, more vertical stress than earlier faces, and sharper, more finely bracketed serifs. From the beginning, the family included small caps, italics, old-style numerals, and fraction support. Winthorpe was released as a paid font.

In 2021, I updated the family by removing outdated characters and extending the fractions feature so that it could handle long numerators and denominators. In November 2024, I made further technical refinements: the name tables were modernized, the style naming was reorganized so “Small Caps” appeared between weight and italic designation, and the Unicode values for superscript ordinals such as “1st” and “2nd” were corrected. I made no outline or kerning changes. The font has not been used in notable projects but demonstrates my engagement with historical models and full-featured family development.