Origins
Back in 2015, Johannes was trying to come up for a name for a techno party he was helping to organize in Berlin. His parents had subjected him to Latin and Greek classes during high school, which he came to enjoy but only in secret, and now these lessons would finally prove themselves useful!
He remembered that in Ancient Greece, Pythia, the high priestess of Apollo, a.k.a. the Oracle of Delphi, would breathe in hallucinogenic vapors to inspire her predictions. So, tapping into the ideas of getting high, fumes, and entering a different state of mind, the team settled on calling the party “Delphi’s Oracle”
Johannes drew some first letterforms of Oracle to design the party’s poster—and both the name and the font originated from there.
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