Filled with the finest ornamental characters from Dover's immense design archive, this practical resource features more than 3,100 black-and-white images. It contains complete alphabets as well as intricate initials in the most popular typefaces: Celtic, Art Nouveau, Gothic, Scroll, and many others. ... read more
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Filled with the finest ornamental characters from Dover's immense design archive, this practical resource features more than 3,100 black-and-white images. It contains complete alphabets as well as intricate initials in the most popular typefaces: Celtic, Art Nouveau, Gothic, Scroll, and many others. Several of the alphabets include numbers and lowercase letters. This book and CD-ROM set is part of the Dover Digital Design Source series. Collected from Dover's famous Pictorial Archive library, the images can be used in a variety of print and web projects.
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