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font-velvetyne-fungal 1
Channel: zzkt
Location: zzkt/packages/fonts-velvetyne.scm (zzkt packages fonts-velvetyne)
Home page: https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/fungal
Licenses: SIL OFL 1.1
Synopsis: Libre variable font inspired by mycelium growth, forked from DejaVu Sans
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.

The Fungal font is a close collaboration between Jérémy Landes and Raphaël Bastide, so the characters of the zine can grow and spread thanks to their variable design. Fungal is a fork of DejaVu Sans, a libre font, popular on Linux systems.

The hypæ 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.

Fungal by Raphaël Bastide, Jérémy Landes. Distributed by velvetyne.fr

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