I released Geoparody on April 4, 2000. It was based on the Anonymous typeface used on the game show Jeopardy! and my first version was a single style, which corresponds to what later became the Heavy weight. That original release was free to use commercially.

In the 2000s I expanded Geoparody into a larger family with weights from Ultra-Light to Heavy, each with italics. The additional weights were interpolated between new light masters and the original heavy style. To give users a closer connection to the look of the Anonymous typeface, I included OpenType stylistic sets with alternate forms. When I restructured the family, I redefined the “Regular” weight and made both Regular and Heavy free for commercial use, while the rest of the family was licensed commercially.

The font was originally called Gyparody, a reference to a Jeopardy! parody segment on Animaniacs. In 2021, I changed the name to Geoparody after realizing that “gyp” has discriminatory origins. On October 31, 2024, version 4.1 updated the weight names for consistency across my catalog—Book became Light, Light was renamed Extra-Light, and Ultra-Light became Thin—and added the section (§) character.

Geoparody has mostly remained a background family, though it did appear in one notable project: it was used on the cover of Frank Black and the Catholics’ 2003 album Show Me Your Tears, designed by Jean Black.