Fleuron (typography)
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A fleuron, also known as a printers' flower, is a typographical symbol, or glyph, used either as a punctuation mark or as an ornament for typographic compositions. Fleurons are stylized forms of flowe
A complex fleuron with thistle from a 1870 edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Τypographic ornament in the ancient city of Kamiros on Rhodes, Greece
Decorated page from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale
John Wycliffe's handwritten Bible, late 14th century
Dingbat
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In typography, a dingbat is an ornament, specifically, a grapheme used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, or as a dinkus. Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature mark
Fleuron (typography)
…A fleuron (), also known as a printers' flower, is a typographical symbol, 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'). Robert Bringhurst…
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.