Fungal

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Fungal

Fungal : Grow1000Thickness500

In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. As a second meaning, the fact that nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude is called shower-curtain effect.

Fungal : Grow500Thickness500

Forked from Deja Vu Sans

Fungal : Grow0Thickness500

Fungal : Grow1000Thickness1000

Grow

Fungal : All Styles

Fungal : Grow0Thickness500

Une dentelle typographique

Fungal : Grow500Thickness500

Fungal : Grow1000Thickness500

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Fungal : Grow500Thickness1000

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Font Infos

- Styles
- Grow0Thickness500
- Grow500Thickness500
- Grow1000Thickness500
- Grow500Thickness1000
- Grow1000Thickness1000
- Designed by
- Jérémy Landes
- Raphaël Bastide
- The Deja Vu Legacy Authors
- Collections
- Sans Serif
- Collaborative
- Fork
- Writing systems
- Latin
- License
- Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright
- Get the source files
- Published on the 23 November 2022

Font description

In 2022, Hato press invited Raphaël Bastide to do a publication part of the zine series. In a wish to revive the “fan” part of fanzine, Raphaël Bastide decided to pay tribute to Wikipedia, a surviving, precious, unequaled place on the open WWW. The 16 pages riso print zine shows the encyclopedia’s interface as a post-human vestige, an artifact invaded by biomorphic figures and spreading typography. Through the pages of the zine, the reader discovers how the graphic elements are spreading like mycelium, creating an ornamental graphic network. A live web version of this page exist and you can visit it here.

Raphaël Bastide approached his longtime friend and Velvetyne collaborator Jérémy Landes to give life to his idea of a molding typeface. They designed the characters of the zine so they can grow and spread thanks to their variable design. Fungal is a fork of DejaVu Sans, a libre font, popular on Linux systems. To view all authors involved in the creation of Deja Vu Sans, head here.

The hyphæ of the mycelium growing from each glyphs can be controlled in their length (the Grow axis) and in their thickness (the Thickness axis) allowing to fine tune the density of the rhizome growing on the page and the legibility of the text in the same move.

Get the zine from Hato Press