hey there-- i'm hoping to name the genesis of this wingding or flourish..i guess its more of an embellishment..? It is popular but i cant place the name of the leaf. It's the upside-down heart with a curl on the end and a curly bit on top..this thing!
anyone?? i've only found catalogue numbers on 'do it yourself' printing sites..
Well, it's a fleuron. I don't know if there's a more specific name for that specific mark.
wicked! that is amazing.. what's the time on that response. i knew someone in this community would be able to give me some answers. horray!
still- i think its gotta be like, not ivy, not laurel..but..??
I feel like this glyph is named in Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style." Don't have mine with me, but I'm sure some nice individual can check it out for you.
Then again, as Johnathan suggests, "fleuron" may well be its sole name.
In Unicode, that specific mark is called a floral heart.
i'm so glad I decided to join and ask. This is the kind of keener infostuff I was looking for.
By the By: I started this aft looking at ivy leaves and found images and graphics of variegated leaves unlike the fleuron in question. It's designer, looking out his window, doing a line drawing for the woodcut somewhere in the UK back in the day, must have lived on the top floor of his residence: h. helix and h. hibernica have TWO leaf types. They have both palmately lobed juvenile leaves [the kind you mostly see in photos] on creeping and climbing stems, and UNLOBED cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun, usually high in the crowns of trees or the top of rock faces. also called lovestone. OK? Thanks!!
Aldus leaf
Aldus leaf in Denmark too
Captured from web.archive.org on 2 May 2011. view this capture
