I released Velvenda on June 23, 2000. The design was inspired by the bold lettering found on 1960s jazz album covers, where heavy, experimental forms reflected the energy of the music. I built Velvenda as a unicase typeface with dense, narrow proportions and letterforms that suggested serifs without following traditional serif construction. Some alternates were included from the start and remained in later versions.

Velvenda was created strictly for display use. From its release it carried a free commercial-use desktop license, and it was updated on December 3, 2008 to expand language coverage to extended Latin. On April 15, 2024, I placed it in the public domain. The design hasn’t been used in notable projects but remains part of my catalog as a record of that early exploration of heavy unicase lettering.