Saturday, 15 October 2011

Typography


  • This designed by Joseph Balthazar Silvestre are from his ornately-titled book Collection de Soixante Feuilles d’Alphabets Historiés et Fleuronnés, tirés des Principales Bibliothèques de l’Europe (Paris, 1843).
  • His "Tree Alphabet" (capital letters only) is a fairy tale forest of mysterious dark nooks and details that begin to tell its own story: an axe in the A, and a snake in the V.  
  • Botanic pattern 
  • Victorian design
  • Designed as stylized flowers, leaves, and even trees, around the alphabet characters

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