I released Breamcatcher on October 26, 2014. The design was rooted in 1920s Art Deco lettering, closely modeled on the sheet music for “With Every Breath I Take” from the Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle film “Here is My Heart”. The original lettering had unusually loose spacing, which not only created a sense of luxury but also made room for long diagonal strokes in characters such as K and R. I kept that feature in Breamcatcher, since it was central to its character.

The initial release included only the Regular style, which I made freely available with a commercial use license. It proved to be one of the more widely adopted of my 2010s releases and gained steady circulation online.

On March 10, 2022, I expanded Breamcatcher into a four-style family by adding Italic, Bold, and Bold-Italic. The italics were partly assisted by RMX Tools for curved areas, but the final adjustments were manual, and the bold weights were drawn rather than mechanically generated. The update also broadened coverage to include most Latin-based languages as well as Greek and Cyrillic. Technical improvements included the addition of prime symbols at Unicode 2032 and 2033, more currency symbols, and a redesigned capital ẞ in its proper Unicode location. Kerning was slightly refined, and the OpenType fractions feature was extended to handle long numerators and denominators.

Breamcatcher remains available and continues to see regular downloads; although I can’t name specific projects, it is among the few typefaces from that period of mine to gain consistent use.