#The Fleuron

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

This week we present some specimens from one of British type designer, printing historian, and printing executive Stanley Morison's (1889-1967) earliest works, On Type Faces, printed by the Riccardi Press in a limited edition of 750 copies for the Medici Society and The Fleuron in 1923. Morison, the long-time typographic consultant for the Monotype Corporation (1923-1967) and the principal designer of Times New Roman, was primarily interested in clean, crisp design:

The letters simply must not come between the writer and his reader, The whole duty of typography . . . is to communicate to the imagination without loss by the way of the thought of image intended to be communicated by the author. All changes, improvements, and modifications in letter form need, therefore, to be so carefully and subtly wrought as to be almost invisible.

The titling specimens from On Type Faces presented here offer examples of Morison's design principles.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Stanley Morison #On Type Faces #Riccardi Press #Medici Society #The Fleuron #type specimen books #type display books #type specimens

[justiceb68]

unel

#azur lane #アズールレーン #richelieu #リシュリュー #fleuron of the waves

[muspeccoll]

#WordyWednesday

Printer’s ornament: A decorative piece of type, often showing a fancy flower, used by printers to make their pages a little more interesting. The first printer to use them was Giovanni Alberto Alvise in the year 1478. They are also sometimes called “dingbats” or, more prettily, “fleurons.”

Image: Typographica: An occasional pamphlet treating of printing, letter-design, and allied arts. New York: The Village Press and Letter Foundery, 1935. Z250 .T9 no.6

(via Page — Pulpboard · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

#wordy wednesday #wordywednesday #john henry #special collections #specialcollections #rare books #rarebooks #bookhistory #fleurons #printers ornaments #printers flowers

[anomalouscorvid]

finally learnt how to use ::before and ::after (or. learnt of their existence and then how to use them)... there is very little stopping me from putting fleurons everywhere now. but ive managed not to so far

#fleuron is such a good word. #anyway i might not have anything to put on my neocities but at least the sidebar looks prettier

[maudeboggins]

Lise Fleuron

#lise fleuron

[medicalunprofessional]

the fact that some unicode symbols were converted 2 emoji make me mad. Give me my little atom unicode symbol back. girl what even is ⚛️

#vicarious #i need it back #some unicode symbols flat out dont exist on some platforms #rip all those fleurons…

[duardius]

forme to ‹humanist eye strain 2.1›.

#typography #letterpress #typesetting #fleuron #arabesque

[postcard-from-the-past]

Lise Fleuron on a vintage postcard

#postcard #vintage #postkarte #ephemera #photography #tarjeta #fleuron #historic #postal #carte postale #briefkaart #lise fleuron #ansichtskarte #sepia #postkaart #lise #photo

[moandotwav]

Detail of a printed arabesque border in a 1616 book.

#arabesque #typography #fleuron #hoogh-geleerden lol #dark academia #dutch #screen printing

[projectthesinner]

#fleurons are my favourite typographics & unicode characters #fleuron #word project #source: wikipedia

[cledesol59]

{Info Stampin'up!} Nouvelle Collection éphémère : "FLEURON SUR MESURE"

{Info Stampin’up!} Nouvelle Collection éphémère : “FLEURON SUR MESURE”

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#jesuisunestampette #Clédesol créations #démonstratrice stampin&039;up dunkerque #Les blablas de cledesol #scrap #Stampin&039;up! Fleuron sur mesure #tutoriel stampin&039;up #tutoriel vidéo

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

FIVE BRITISH WOOD ENGRAVERS

We return to the first issue of the English annual The Woodcut, edited by author and art critic Herbert Furst and printed at the Curwen Press for the British typography journal The Fleuron in 1927. This week we highlight engravings by five more notable British artists, Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984), John Nash (1893-1977), Eric F. Daglish (1894-1966), Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981), and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #British wood engravers #Douglas Percy Bliss #John Nash #Eric F. Daglish #Blair Hughes-Stanton #Eric Ravilious #The Woodcut #printmaking annual #Herbert Furst #Curwen Press #The Fleuron

[justiceb68]

msh

#azur lane #アズールレーン #richelieu #リシュリュー #the cardinal #beach #海辺 #fleuron of the waves

[fleuronterrobang]

☙❦❧ ☘ 𐡷𐫱𐡸

#fleurons #and a shamrock

[clawmarks]

Recueil ou alphabet de lettres initiales historiques avec bordures et fleurons d'après le 14 et 15 siècles - Jean Midolle - 1846 - via Gallica

#pattern #borders #floral motif

[musicktoplayinthedark]

My albums selection for the next week:

Nurse With Wound – Rock 'n Roll Station

BSL - Fleuron de l'Industrie Française

Nightshifter - Neidan

Orphx – Vita Mediativa

Six Finger Satellite – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird

Norscq – Lavatronic

LTNO – GlobalCut

Ministry – Hopiumforthemasses

Skinny Puppy – Rabies

Kim Gordon – The Collective

#musical selection #nurse with wound #BSL #nightshifter #orphx #six finger satellite #norscq #LTNO #ministry #skinny puppy #kim gordon #sonic youth #les tétines noires #experimental music #industrial metal #industrial music #techno #electronic music #electronica #idm #indie music