I released Headlight on November 1, 2007, as a commercial rounded sans serif. The design combined superelliptical curves with humanist strokes and oval-nib embellishments. While it drew a trace of influence from Barry Deck’s Template Gothic, particularly its stroke modulation, the connection was indirect. I wanted the letterforms to feel friendlier and less technical than geometric rounded faces like Arial Rounded, while still working in both text and display settings.

The family began with five weights and later expanded on August 16, 2009, when I added italics. That update also brought adjustments to vertical metrics and introduced missing symbols such as the paragraph mark and section sign. Over the years, I refined the design further. On June 25, 2021, I removed deprecated characters, eliminated superfluous ligatures, corrected curve errors, and improved access to the alternate italic “a” via Stylistic Set 1 in applications like InDesign. On November 8, 2024, I reorganized the naming system with version 1.4: Book became Light, and Light was renamed Extra-Light, clarifying the hierarchy of weights.

Headlight has never been released in free versions, and I haven’t seen it used in notable projects. It remains one of my rounded sans designs that blends humanist influence with softened geometry in a way that doesn’t directly resemble anything else I’ve made.