vignette, in graphic design,
is a unique form for a frame to an image, either illustration or
photograph. Rather than the image's edges being rectilinear, it is
overlaid with decorative artwork featuring a unique outline. This is
similar to the use of the word in photography, where the edges of an
image that has been vignetted are non-linear or sometimes softened with a
mask - often a dark room process of introducing a screen.
An oval
Vignette is probably the most common example.
Originally a vignette was a design of vine-leaves and tendrils
('vignette'=small vine). The term was also used for a small
embellishment without border, in what otherwise would have been a blank
space, such as that found on a title-page, a headpiece or tail piece.
The use in modern graphic design is derived from book publishing techniques dating back to the Middle Ages Analytical Bibliography
(c a. 1450 to 1800) when a vignette referred to an engraved design
printed using a copper-plate press, on a page that has already been
printed on using a letter press (Printing press).
Vignettes
are sometimes distinguished from other in-text illustrations printed on
a copper-plate press by the fact that they do not have a border. such
designs usually appear on title-pages only, wood cuts which are printed on a letter press and are also used to separate sections or chapters are identified as a headpiece, tailpiece or printer's ornament, depending on shape and position.
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