I released Wheaton on August 13, 2011. It was a display face with rounder corners and without the sharp angles I often used in other techno-inspired designs. The influence was retro-futurism, particularly the look of magnetic ink lettering from the 1980s. The name came from Wil Wheaton, whom I remembered as the young actor in The Last Starfighter. Wheaton launched as a paid font.

In the years following the release, I created an all-caps companion, Wheaton Capitals, which I distributed as a free font but bundled with the main family. In 2021, I updated Wheaton to remove outdated characters and add support for fractions, though I made no structural changes. It has not been used in any notable projects, but for me it represents an intersection of 1980s aesthetics and simplified digital forms.