I released Kelvingrove on August 28, 2007 as a paid typeface. The design came from an experiment in FontLab where I blended two of my earlier typefaces, Biondi and Marion, to see if I could create something new. The result was a small-cap typeface that held together better than I expected. I named it Kelvingrove after coming across the place name while scanning an atlas; it felt like the right fit for the design.

Kelvingrove was released as a single style but included OpenType stylistic alternates for characters such as K, Q, R, and the ampersand. In 2015 I expanded the character set to include Cyrillic. On December 7, 2021, version 2.1 introduced several refinements: deprecated characters such as L with dot were removed, the superfluous fi and fl ligatures were eliminated, and the Ş and ş were corrected to use proper cedillas. I also improved the accessibility of stylistic alternates in applications like InDesign.

Kelvingrove has not been used in any notable projects, but for me it represents an example of experimentation that produced a usable result. The blend tool in FontLab could often be unreliable, yet in this case it generated something I was satisfied with.