I released Lady Starlight on March 17, 1999 as a single-style display font. The design was directly inspired by the Scorpions’ band insignia, which I later learned had also been used in the Rollerball movie poster from 1975. The name came from “Lady Starlight,” a track on the Scorpions’ 1980 album Animal Magnetism. The first version supported basic Latin only.

On July 20, 2021 I redrew Lady Starlight from scratch. The geometry was tightened, the waistline logic made more consistent, and extended Latin was added. I also replaced deprecated characters, expanded the fractions feature, and corrected quotation marks and guillemot spacing. Kerning and spacing were improved throughout. The font remained a single style and never included italics.

Lady Starlight was always free for commercial use. On April 1, 2024 I released it into the public domain. While it has never been used in notable projects, its reference to 1970s pop culture and its song-based name give it a place in my catalog that feels tied to both music and cinema history.