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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 ('flower'). Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style calls the forms "horticultural dingbats". A commonly encountered fleuron is the , the floral heart or (ivy leaf), also known as an aldus leaf after Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius.
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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 flowers or leaves; the term derives from the ('flower'). Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style calls the forms "horticultural dingbats". A commonly encountered fleuron is the , the floral heart or (ivy leaf), also known as an aldus leaf after Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius.
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