Venacti

I released Venacti on November 7, 2005. It was commissioned by the BBC, who asked for a typeface that combined the industrial character of 1970s logos with a futuristic edge while still being accessible to children. They provided examples ranging from Digital Sans to my own Forgotten Futurist, but none captured what they wanted, so I built something new. Venacti used square letterforms with softened corners to balance technological precision with approachability.

Venacti was a commercial release from the start and was never distributed for free. I intended it to work in both display and text settings. The name was a synthetic construction, assembled letter by letter, chosen for its abstract and modern sound rather than any external reference.

On December 4, 2009, I expanded its language coverage to include extended Latin. Later, on June 4, 2021, I updated the family with technical corrections: reversed quotes were replaced with proper forms, primes were added, and deprecated characters were removed. That update also included general cleanup of the character set. No visual changes were made to the design. Venacti hasn’t appeared in notable projects beyond its original BBC commission.