The Fuse Box family of three fonts was designed in 2005. All three fonts originated from metal spray-paint stencils which were discovered in a junk store. The stencils were about A6 size and had each letter shape cut crisply out of 1mm thick steel plate. Designer Wayne Thompson experimented with ways of applying the stencils, before settling with paintbrush on plywood. The alphabet was then photographed, and the images used as templates in Illustrator for the drawing process. In places, the paint bled beneath the metal stencils creating obvious imperfections, Wayne chose to include many of these imperfections in his final outlines.

Since there were only 26 stencils – one for each capital letter – Wayne extrapolated the remaining glyphs from existing shapes.

Three variations exist: Fuse Box Dry [the standard form of the stencil letter shapes], Fuse Box Wet [the letter shapes reversed out of an ink-blob background], and Fuse Box Splat [the ink blobs on their own].

In 2009 the Fuse Box trilogy of fonts was updated to include a full Central European character set.