I released Board of Directors on April 12, 2010. The design drew from hi-tech corporate logos of the 1970s, reinterpreted as a square display family. I built seven weights with italics from the outset. One of the key features was the use of tight, rounded corners—what I thought of as a bullnose effect—combined with a large x-height. I also introduced a flat-sided A with a peaked top, inspired by 1980s dot matrix and plotter fonts. Characters with diagonals, such as K and X, were slightly bent at the ends so they would sit more comfortably alongside squarer companions. The overall effect was a squarish sans serif with a corporate tone, related in spirit to Philip Kelly’s ITC Pump.

Board of Directors was always a commercial release. In June 2021 I issued an update to improve technical reliability. This included removing obsolete characters, correcting reversed quotation marks, expanding the fractions feature to support long strings, adding prime symbols, narrowing the ellipsis, adjusting vertical metrics for web use, and refining outlines where curve errors had caused problems. On October 17, 2024, I reorganized the weight names to bring them in line with newer families: Book was renamed Light, Light became Extra-Light, Extra-Light became Thin, and Ultra-Light became Hairline.