I released Zamora on February 9, 2011. The design was inspired by the sharp, cracked letterforms I remembered from Tom Petty’s “Hard Promises” album art. I exaggerated Latin serifs, then cut into them with cracks, scratches, and gouges to heighten the distressed effect. Zamora was always released as a paid font in a single style. One of its distinctive features was a ligature system that replaced common digraphs and trigraphs with precomposed variants, giving text a rougher and less repetitive rhythm.

In 2021, I updated Zamora. I removed deprecated and obsolete characters such as L with dot and E with breve. I also repaired an inconsistency between the space and non-breaking space widths, narrowed the ellipsis to a more appropriate measure, and added single guillemots. Vertical metrics were adjusted for cross-browser compatibility, but scaling was unaffected in Adobe applications. Zamora has not been used in notable projects, yet it represents my interest at that time in distressed serif designs paired with OpenType substitution features.