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A five-stage pixel display face that grows, blooms and fractures like a flower, built to interrupt automatic reading.
About
Flor de Ruina moves through five linked states, from germen to fractura, each glyph set further along a botanical life cycle than the last. Felipe Sanzana built it as a tool for slow reading, deliberately unsettling the automatic pace most typefaces aim for. Pixel-edged forms and a brutalist rawness carry that intent through into the letterforms themselves.
Classification
Built as five sequential glyph states, germen, semilla, flor, ruina and fractura, tracing a flower's life cycle from germination to fracture. Pixel-edged construction and a brutalist rawness deliberately slow the reader down.
Weights
Regular
Family
Flor de Ruina GermenFlor de Ruina SemillaFlor de Ruina FlorFlor de Ruina RuinaFlor de Ruina Fractura
Languages
Latin
Tags
displaypixelbrutalistexperimentalbotanicalfrench