In his own words...

In the 70’s I went out with a girl whose father was a card-carrying member of three of the biggest unions in the printing arts. He gave me two things: a prewar Linotype specimen book and an ancient ‘how to’ lettering book that contained 30 or 40 script specimens from lettering artists of the time. Tiamaria is the developed glyphs of one of these specimens.

Tiamaria is the name of one of the islands in the Galapagos chain.