FAHn Venn Diagram

The Foil Arms and Hog Venn Diagram

This was an idea born from my initial fascination with how FAH work so well together, how they have stuck together over the years and, in particular, how they just get better and better with time! Once I discovered that not only does Foil share a name with Hog, but also a birthday with Arms, I started to think there was obviously some sort of kismet here… but I really wanted to find a third link for Arms and Hog. It couldn’t just be that Foil was the glue in the middle – this three-wheeling group really are evenly matched and perfectly balanced! After someone else wondered about this third thing in a comment, Heleendje suggested that Arms and Hog’s joint inability to beat ten-year-olds at computer games would be a suitable link, and thus, with this final piece, the diagram was created (with the help of a soup bowl).

It took multiple days (and many nights of waking up with further linking ideas) to create.

The main idea is that within each circle are facts we know about each of the lads, as individuals (more-or-less). The overlaps speak for themselves.

Surrounding the diagram are various of my favourite interactions between the lads’ characters. I also really enjoy typography, so a large part of the fun for me was finding fonts and typefaces to match the characters. For example, the quote from Ceol agus Ól uses a traditional Celtic font, except for the word ‘regular’ which is in my own handwriting; the ‘Paper Bag Hats’ quotes have fancy, curly writing etc. As a late addition, I realised that if my focus was on typography, this wouldn’t be complete without the entire alphabet written out. Of course, given it is FAH we are talking about here, there is a quote for that! (There’s ALWAYS a quote!)

I am very glad I included it, as Foil’s own reaction to seeing this picture was: “The ‘Do you know if absdefghij…’ bit really gave me a laugh!” (Yes, he typed the alphabet incorrectly!)

Also hidden in this - venn diagrams within a venn diagram! You will really need to have paused the particular sketch at the exact right moment, to recognise it. Or possibly you've always wondered what the other side of the page in that book said... now you know!

Signed: Camilla



Scroll up/down and left/right to 'browse'  the whole Venn diagram in high res, and click the drawings to see what this reference is all about! Each drawing might take you to a sketch, a tweet or an Instagram story from the lads, a Patreon post (become a Foil Arms &amp; Hog patron to unlock these!) or an article on the FAHnWiki.