Our story
A wedding gift,
made by hand.
FANO started as a wedding gift. An artist drew it for her sister — a maths teacher who'd always loved the Fano plane. Gino Fano described it in 1892: fifty-seven points, eight on each line, any two points sharing exactly one line. A small piece of nineteenth-century maths that fits perfectly on a deck of cards.
So she made one. Fifty-seven hand-drawn things from her sister's world — the dog, the kitchen, the songs, the places they'd been together — laid out on cards built so any two of them share one symbol. Guaranteed.
“A gift for nerds,
made by her sister.”
It worked. Not because of the maths — though the maths is honest — but because every drawing came from her sister's hand. Drawn for a person. For a marriage. For a Saturday afternoon at a long table somewhere, years later.
Now every FANO deck is made the same way. You tell us about someone you love. We draw their world: fifty-seven small things from it, on cards built for hands. Their name on the first one. Your dedication beneath it.
A gift, with maths underneath.