I released Stud on September 4, 2007. My goal was to make a bold display typeface with a cowboy feel, loosely inspired by Clarendon models but drawn freely. I kept the letterforms wide, with heavy serifs and a strong horizontal presence. To give it extra texture, I added a stamped letterpress grunge effect during the initial release. The family remained a single style without italics or additional weights.

I built OpenType ligatures into Stud so that common pairs could swap to custom combinations, giving the typeface a slightly less mechanical rhythm. The promotional material was intentionally tongue-in-cheek; it exaggerated macho cowboy imagery to the point of parody.

Stud was always released as a paid font and never saw notable public use. On June 18, 2021, I updated it by fixing spacing, refining some curves, moving characters into their correct Unicode slots, and reducing the ellipsis weight. On November 21, 2024, version 1.106 expanded the character set with the addition of a section symbol.