Description from Use & Modify maintainer Raphaël Bastide:
In 2011 I created Delectable, a blog focused on contemporary web design showing nice websites. The logo and the about page of Delectable was set in Herbiflora. I found the font very cool, because its wonky and sweet design. At the time I was already very interested in type design and I found also cool Herbiflora was quite undocumented, it gave the font an underground aspect I guess.
Recently (2025) I decided to find more about the history of the font. I contacted the author Yi Yang through their blog, and got this nice description:
When I first discovered Fontforge and had the idea of creating my own fonts, I decided to make a batch of four after the four suits of cards: Heats, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds, for that they are not letters but have letter-like features (two have “serifs”, two don't). So I began working on the Clubs one, hence ending up with this not-round, serif font. And then I felt “clubs” wasn't a fancy name (and had ambiguity in English, why I wasn't thinking of the French word trèfles?), so I transliterated its Chinese name “草花” back into pseudo Latin, and ended up with the current name.
Description from Use & Modify maintainer Raphaël Bastide:
In 2011 I created Delectable, a blog focused on contemporary web design showing nice websites. The logo and the about page of Delectable was set in Herbiflora. I found the font very cool, because its wonky and sweet design. At the time I was already very interested in type design and I found also cool Herbiflora was quite undocumented, it gave the font an underground aspect I guess. Recently (2025) I decided to find more about the history of the font. I contacted the author Yi Yang through their blog, and got this nice description: