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Florence 1887 drop caps

15 Jul 2010

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I recently stumbled in a very old book from 1887, called Diario delle Feste Fiorentine.
This book is full of decorative drop caps with a lot of details .
I wanted to share some of them here on my blog for your inspiration.
Enjoy!

Written by Michela

Web designer, standards enthusiast, founder of web is love and Colazione da Michy. Follow her on twitter

9 Comments

  1. Paolo
    July 15, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Molto interessante questa ricerca!

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  2. Unethical Method User
    July 16, 2010 at 1:15 am

    Wonderful site and theme, would really like to see a bit more content though!
    Great post all around, added your XML feed! Love this theme, too!

    Reply
  3. Tracking Comment Spam like a Cat Hunts Mice
    July 28, 2010 at 1:49 am

    Good Day Friends,

    I frequently visit a commenter’s website to ensure it meets an arbitrary minimal standard. So when “the Success Ladder” submitted:

    “Wonderful site and theme, would really like to see a bit more content though! Great post all around, added your XML feed! Love this theme, too”

    at 10:57 PM on 2010/07/27 GMT-5 from 83.216.137.200 and referencing their page as their website, I dropped by to take a look. Well suprise suprise, the comment is here too – only thing is that this one is from Yuxx (aka Youxxef) of Fajr Breeze, “an Internet Marketing Company”. Google returned 4 sites with this exact same comment and also showed 50 sites in many different languages with the exact same first sentence.

    When I started writing this comment, I was under the foolish assumption “the Success Ladder” was another victim of comment spammers. Now, I am not so sure. I visited a four sites and saw that they too had a comment from “the Success Ladder” so I continued surfing. 35 of the 40 I’ve now checked have the same comment.

    Since I was already here, I just thought that I would comment about what I learned. It would be pretty neat if everyone changed the comment spammer’s name from “the Success Ladder” to “A Comment Spammer”, “Unethical Method User”, or something more punitive.

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    • Michela
      July 28, 2010 at 4:07 am

      Thanks for the research and the suggestion, just updated the name ;)

  4. John Hyde
    July 31, 2010 at 2:28 am

    Fascinating to see these old designs. Look closely and you can see it’s modular: square letter with background – then optional small top decoration and optional trailing bottom sections.

    Let’s celebrate the huge effort in creating this work: the design effort, then creating the relief printing blocks, then the skill of composing this and locking it into a chase with the normal letters. Even operating the press was a skilled activity in those days.

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    • Michela
      July 31, 2010 at 4:11 am

      So true John!
      Thanks for stopping by

  5. Raquel Trevisi
    August 16, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Very nice blog and informations!

    http://www.raqueltrevisi.com.br/blog

    Reply
  6. mekanik proje
    August 24, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    really nice, thanks for sharing…

    Reply

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