I released Paltime on December 20, 2006, as a follow-up to my earlier Budmo typeface. Budmo had established the idea of a “marquee lights” font, but I wanted a version that felt more casual. Paltime was built as an all-caps display face with illuminated dots, designed simultaneously with the outlines rather than added afterward. This ensured a consistent rhythm and spacing. The capitals were based on my earlier typeface Bleeker.

During development, I experimented with alternate dot shapes such as stars and hearts. The stars pushed the software to its technical limits, nearly crashing under the complexity, while other experimental shapes couldn’t even be saved. In the end, I limited the family to dots, hearts, and stars. The typeface was always distributed as a paid product, with no free styles included.

On May 25, 2021, I updated Paltime. That revision removed outdated characters such as L with dot and E with breve, replaced reversed quotation marks with proper ones, and slightly adjusted the vertical metrics. These changes improved compatibility without altering the design’s appearance. Paltime was always intended for signage and display, and while I haven’t seen it used in notable projects, it remains a part of my catalog as a decorative illuminated style