I introduced Octynaz on December 15, 2006. It was essentially a very distressed version of Tandelle Bold, stripped of lowercase letters. I wanted to push further into grunge and post-apocalyptic aesthetics by exaggerating damage well beyond what I had done in earlier fonts. The letterforms were heavily smudged, often spilling far past their boundaries, and I used ligatures to allow long smudges to cross several letters at once. I also filled in the counters to give the impression of deterioration and clogging.

Octynaz was created for general display use, particularly in contexts that called for an aggressive or chaotic appearance. From the start, it was distributed as a paid typeface. On June 25, 2021, I updated it by removing deprecated characters such as L with dot and E with breve, replacing reversed quotation marks with proper ones, narrowing the ellipsis, and refining outlines to eliminate errors like overlapping points and twists. These adjustments didn’t alter its appearance significantly but improved file efficiency.

I haven’t seen Octynaz used in any notable projects, but it remains part of my catalog as one of the more extreme distressed designs I produced.