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NePo meets Drawbot | part 1
Combination Book Border (Series 87)
Designed by Richard Smith of MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan — patented February 25, 1879 — the «Combination Book Border (Series 87)» is a superb example of Victorian typographic skeuomorphisms.
The Illimitable Border
The self-evidently named «Illimitable Border.» displayed in H. W. Caslon & Co.’s 1915 «Specimens of Types & Borders and Illustrated Catalogue of Printers’ Joinery and Materials» consists of 39 combinable units — a dot matrix design on a 4 × 4 grid — enabling the compositor to form pixel-like decoration of varying complexity. The catalogue showcases a selection of these inexhaustible permutations aside the respective elements in use.
Book Border Absurdism — part 1
La vignette Décor
Ported from the collection «Corpus typographique français» at the Musée de l’imprimerie et de la communication graphique Lyon, «La vignette Décor» is the licensed casting of Schrifguss A.G. vorm. Brüder Butter’s «Dekora» (ca. 1930) by the Fonderie Typographique Française.
