I released Structia on July 6, 2006. The idea came from brutalist architecture combined with the octagonal spirit of ITC Machine. I had already explored that territory in my Tank typeface, but this time I wanted something with looser spacing and larger apertures and counters so it would work for headings and subheadings. The design had hard edges and narrow proportions; to soften it, I gave the lowercase letters more rounded counters while keeping the overall geometry intact. I added slanted stroke ends to break the rigidity.

At the same time, I introduced two variants. Structia Panel added thin stencil-like lines, meant to evoke access panels or welded seams, and Structia War applied a distressed, burned-out treatment. The intent was to offer a small family of related display designs, all released together.

Structia was always a paid typeface. On June 25, 2021, I updated the family to fix spacing, adjust vertical metrics, refine stylistic alternates for better software compatibility, and clean up outlines in Structia War. On November 21, 2024, version 2.102 modernized name tables and added a section symbol to the character set.