I released Glyxonite on May 20, 2023, after one of the most labor-intensive design processes I’ve undertaken. The idea began with Tadashi Yamashita’s Galaxian game logo, which itself was modeled on the distinctive lettering of Roger Dean. Dean’s work for bands such as Yes, Asia, and Uriah Heep helped define the visual world of progressive rock, and the resemblance between the Galaxian logo and Dean’s design for Greenslade gave me a broader visual vocabulary to draw upon.

The challenge was that there is no single, consistent “Roger Dean alphabet.” His approach shifted from project to project, and his most famous logo for Yes is all lowercase. I had to track down and analyze every capital letter I could find, then decide how to translate them into a cohesive system. The real difficulty lay in balancing curves against abrupt, hard-edged breaks, a feature that made the Galaxian logo itself so striking. I built the typeface through sketches, overlays, scanning, and cleanup until it began to function as a usable display font.

Glyxonite was conceived solely as a display typeface, intended for logos, posters, or other contexts where a bold, otherworldly style is appropriate. It was never distributed for free; I released it as a commercial font and have not updated it since. To date, I’m not aware of any notable uses. For me, the value lay in the process itself—an exploration that brought together arcade game history and progressive rock aesthetics in a single set of letterforms.