“A Venetian oldstyle for screens”, Fern was started by David Jonathan Ross in 2013, originally intended to be a part of Font Bureau’s Reading Edge Series for small text on the web. A first official version was released to members of DJR’s Font Of The Month Club in October 2018 as Fern Micro (previously: Fern RE) in Regular and Italic styles. The June 2021 installment added Fern Text, (used for sample), variable fonts, and ornaments.