Ornament (print)
In the printing industry, ornaments (or ornaments) are all movable letters that do not have characters but ornaments . They are used for book decoration .
The typical ornaments are Fleurons , head pieces , closing pieces , scrolls , trophies , vignettes , lunettes , calligraphic and heraldic symbols , cupids and wreaths .
Today ornamental rates are collected as graphic characters in ornamental fonts , such as Hermann Zapf 's ITC Zapf Dingbats font , or Wingdings and Webdings as IT fonts . Decorative glyphs can be found as Unicode characters in the Unicode block Dingbats (U + 2700–27BF).
literature
- Karl Scheffler: Meditations on the ornament . In: Decorative Art . No. 8 , 1901, pp. 397-407 ( Webrepro ).
- Fonts and decorations for notices, large print jobs, etc ... JG Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig 1909.
Web links
Commons : Typographic Ornaments - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Typography - Printer's Ornaments by Aridi. In: fotosearch. Stock Photography & Royalty Free Stock Photos. Publitek, Inc., accessed September 1, 2008 (Examples of Clip Arts for Decoration).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Lieberman: Printers Ornaments. In: Book Patrol. A Haven For Book Culture. April 7, 2008, archived from the original on April 14, 2008 ; accessed on September 1, 2008 (English).