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[wikipe] Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Search [ ] Search * Create account * Log in [ ] Personal tools * Create account * Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more * Contributions * Talk [ ] Contents move to sidebar hide * (Top) * 1History * 2Fleurons in Unicode * 3Gallery * 4See also * 5References * 6External links Toggle the table of contents [ ] Toggle the table of contents Fleuron (typography) [ ] 10 languages * Dansk * Deutsch * Esperanto * Francais * Italiano * Magyar * Ri Ben Yu * Polski * Russkii * Ukrayins'ka Edit links * Article * Talk [ ] English * Read * Edit * View history [ ] Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions * Read * Edit * View history General * What links here * Related changes * Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Page information * Cite this page * Get shortened URL * Wikidata item Print/export * Download as PDF * Printable version In other projects * Wikimedia Commons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Typographical ornament ( etc) [220px-A_complex_Fleuron_with_t]A complex fleuron with thistle from a 1870 edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect A fleuron (/'flU@ran, -@n, 'fle:ran, -@n/;^[1]), also known as printers' flower, is a typographic element, or glyph, used either as a punctuation mark or as an ornament for typographic compositions. Fleurons are stylized forms of flowers or leaves; the term derives from the Old French: floron ("flower").^[2] Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style calls the forms "horticultural dingbats ".^[3] A commonly-encountered fleuron is the , the floral heart or hedera (ivy leaf). It is also known as an aldus leaf (after Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius). History[edit] [220px-Ph]Typographic ornament in ancient city of Kamiros in Rhodes island, Greece Flower decorations are among the oldest typographic ornaments. A fleuron can also be used to fill the white space that results from the indentation of the first line of a paragraph,^[4] on a line by itself to divide paragraphs in a highly stylized way, to divide lists, or for pure ornamentation.^[5] The fleuron (as a formal glyph) is a sixteenth century introduction.^[6] Fleurons were crafted the same way as other typographic elements were: as individual metal sorts that could be fit into the printer's compositions alongside letters and numbers. This saved the printer time and effort in producing ornamentation. Because the sorts could be produced in multiples, printers could build up borders with repeating patterns of fleurons. Fleurons in Unicode[edit] This section contains uncommon Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters. Further information: Dingbat Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode. The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf");^[7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block; and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also supported. * U+2619 REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET (Miscellaneous Symbols) * U+2766 FLORAL HEART (Dingbats) * U+2767 ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET (Dingbats) * U+10877 PALMYRENE LEFT-POINTING FLEURON * U+10878 PALMYRENE RIGHT-POINTING FLEURON * U+10AF1 MANICHAEAN PUNCTUATION FLEURON * U+1F650 NORTH WEST POINTING LEAF (Ornamental Dingbats) * U+1F651 SOUTH WEST POINTING LEAF * U+1F652 NORTH EAST POINTING LEAF * U+1F653 SOUTH EAST POINTING LEAF * U+1F654 TURNED NORTH WEST POINTING LEAF * U+1F655 TURNED SOUTH WEST POINTING LEAF * U+1F656 TURNED NORTH EAST POINTING LEAF * U+1F657 TURNED SOUTH EAST POINTING LEAF * U+1F658 NORTH WEST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F659 SOUTH WEST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65A NORTH EAST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65B SOUTH EAST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65C HEAVY NORTH WEST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65D HEAVY SOUTH WEST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65E HEAVY NORTH EAST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F65F HEAVY SOUTH EAST POINTING VINE LEAF * U+1F660 NORTH WEST POINTING BUD * U+1F661 SOUTH WEST POINTING BUD * U+1F662 NORTH EAST POINTING BUD * U+1F663 SOUTH EAST POINTING BUD * U+1F664 HEAVY NORTH WEST POINTING BUD * U+1F665 HEAVY SOUTH WEST POINTING BUD * U+1F666 HEAVY NORTH EAST POINTING BUD * U+1F667 HEAVY SOUTH EAST POINTING BUD Gallery[edit] * Decorated page from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale Decorated page from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale * John Wycliffe's handwritten Bible, late 14th Century John Wycliffe's handwritten Bible, late 14th Century * Fleuron by Robert Granjon, who pioneered the style, printed 1567 Fleuron by Robert Granjon, who pioneered the style, printed 1567 * The arabesque title page of a 1611 book. The arabesque title page of a 1611 book. * Detail of a printed arabesque border in a 1616 book. Detail of a printed arabesque border in a 1616 book. * Specimens of printed floral borders from an 1897 type foundry specimen book. Specimens of printed floral borders from an 1897 type foundry specimen book. * Ornamented borders by Thomas Maitland Cleland, 1923. Ornamented borders by Thomas Maitland Cleland, 1923. * Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. See also[edit] * Asterism (typography) - Typographic symbol (***) * Dingbat - Typographic symbol class, a printers' ornament * Dinkus - Typographic symbol ( * * * ), mostly used as a sub-chapter section break. Although a group of asterisks is the most common style, fleurons are also seen fulfilling this role. * The Fleuron, a British typography magazine from the early 20th century. References[edit] 1. ^ "fleuron". Collins English Dictionary. 2. ^ "Fleuron". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2013-12-24. 3. ^ Bringhurst, Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style, Second edition: Hartley and Marks Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0-88179-132-6 4. ^ "Typographic Marks Unknown - @retinart". Retinart.net. Retrieved 2013-12-24. 5. ^ Lisa Ferlazzo (May 10, 2013). "Punctuation graveyard: The Hedera". theworddict.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. 6. ^ Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. (2012). Vine Leaf Ornaments in Renaissance Typography: A Survey. Brill | Hes & De Graaf. ISBN 978-9061945611. OCLC 802183100. cited in Danilova, Anya (December 23, 2021). "Manual: *@(c)(tm)(r)+++SSP". Type Today. Retrieved December 2, 2022. 7. ^ "Dingbats". Unicode Consortium. External links[edit] # Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fleurons and Aldus leaf. * Book cover printed using fleuron designs * v * t * e Common punctuation marks and other typographical marks or symbols * space * , comma * : colon * ; semicolon * - hyphen * ' ' apostrophe * ' '' ''' prime * . full stop * & ampersand * @ at sign * ^ caret * / slash * \ backslash * ... ellipsis * * asterisk * *** asterism * * * * dinkus * - hyphen-minus * - - -- dash * [?] [?] double hyphen * ? question mark * ! exclamation mark * !? interrobang * ! ? inverted ! and ? * [?] irony punctuation * # number sign * numero sign * o a ordinal indicator * % percent sign * %0 per mille * %00 basis point * deg degree symbol * [?] diameter sign * + - plus and minus signs * x multiplication sign * / division sign * ~ tilde * +- plus-minus sign * [?] minus-plus sign * _ underscore * - tie * | | || vertical bar * * bullet * * interpunct * (c) copyright symbol * (c) copyleft * sound recording copyright * (r) registered trademark * ^SM service mark symbol * ^TM trademark symbol * ' ' " " ' ' " " quotation mark * < > << >> guillemet * ( ) [ ] { } < > bracket * " ditto mark * + ++ dagger * hedera/floral heart * manicule * * [?] lozenge * P [?] pilcrow (paragraph mark) * SS section mark * Version of this table as a sortable list * Currency symbols * Diacritics (accents) * Logic symbols * Math symbols * Whitespace * Chinese punctuation * Hebrew punctuation * Japanese punctuation * Korean punctuation * Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fleuron_ (typography)&oldid=1165797190" Categories: * Typographical symbols * Flowers in culture Hidden categories: * Articles with short description * Short description is different from Wikidata * Articles containing Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text * Articles containing Latin-language text * This page was last edited on 17 July 2023, at 13:27 (UTC). * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0 ; additional terms may apply. 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