I released Pulse State on July 17, 1997. The typeface was conceived as a horror display design. I drew the letterforms by hand on paper, shaping them to resemble tangled organic structures such as nerves or veins. The name came from the song “Pulse State” by Future Sound of London.
For many years, Pulse State was distributed with a free commercial use desktop license. In August 2020, I placed it in the public domain.