I introduced Antihistory on June 28, 2006. The original idea was simple: I wanted to make an antiqued version of a 1990s-style font. Later, when it came time to describe it, I leaned into a kind of gonzo historical spin — imagining it as if someone in the future were misremembering late-20th-century typography — but that was mostly a marketing angle because I couldn’t think of what else to say at the time.

The design started from a modified version of Corzinair, which I then distressed and aged. The result was a font that looked weathered, as if it had lived through a few decades of misuse. I released it in Regular and Italic, thinking it might be flexible enough for both headline and text applications while carrying its odd retro-futuristic flavor.

I’ve never seen Antihistory in use, and it was ignored when I released it. It doesn’t really connect to the other texture-heavy typefaces I was doing in the 2000s — it occupies its own narrow niche. Looking back, I see it as an experiment, and maybe one day it will find a use, but for now it remains a curiosity in my catalog.

On June 25, 2021, I updated the font by removing deprecated characters, adjusting the ellipsis width, and tweaking vertical metrics for better cross-browser compatibility.