Walken

I released Walken on May 21, 2009. The idea came from a Japanese rock festival logo that mixed stencil and non-stencil letters in the same word. I built it as a slab serif with a similar inconsistency; some letters appear with stencil breaks while others remain solid. The irregularity is reinforced by an OpenType feature that shuffles ligatures of common digraphs and trigraphs, so the alternation is unpredictable. From the start, I offered three styles—Clean, Crisp, and Hard—that increased in texture and roughness. Walken was never offered as a free font. On June 4, 2021, I revised it with small fixes and general refinements, keeping the family intact but more technically reliable.