Fontfabric designed Alpha Lyrae, a custom sans-serif typeface for Vega Protocol, a decentralized finance platform, with agency Big Fan. The brief called for a Helvetica-inspired sans-serif that could shift into a pixelated variant to signal the brand's disruptive stance, plus custom glyphs suited to crypto and financial contexts. The typeface was built for release as an open-source asset, consistent with Vega's community-driven model. Vega Protocol's Discord community named the typeface through a naming competition, choosing Alpha Lyrae after the star associated with Vega's astronomical namesake.