It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and Aaron Bell between 2011–2021.

The Overpass typeface was commissioned by Red Hat exclusively for use in their software for UI elements.

[4][5][6] Overpass was initially developed for Red Hat by Delve Withrington in 2011 and had only two weights (regular and bold) with hinting for the TrueType format fonts performed by Jason Campbell.

The 2015 update to version 3.0 was developed by Delve Withrington with assistance from Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and expert consultation by Michael Luton on Overpass Mono.

[9][10] Post-production assistance on that version (4.0) was provided by Aaron Bell on behalf of Google Fonts.