Skirt

I released Skirt on August 28, 2007. My intention was to combine the clarity and proportion of a geometric sans with the softer qualities of a humanist style. I drew it to feel pen-made and approachable, but I avoided the stereotypical flourishes often associated with feminine design. The name was meant to suggest a feminine angle, but not in an ornamental way. The family included three weights with italics from the beginning.

Skirt fit into a broader movement of the late 2000s, when designers were looking for sans serifs that felt warmer and more personable than earlier geometric models. I made a few adjustments to vertical metrics around 2010, but otherwise the design has remained stable. On June 25, 2021, I updated Skirt by removing obsolete characters, strengthening fraction support, refining stylistic alternates for broader software compatibility, adjusting vertical metrics for cross-browser use, and adding prime marks.

Skirt has always been a paid typeface and, while it never became widely known in commercial projects, it reflects the effort I made during that period to balance accessibility with seriousness in sans serif design.