A little history.
A new visual language.

Letters that bloom. Birds carved in ink. A printer’s flower at the end of a thought.

Explore six families of icons and illustrations, then make something of your own from their parts.

Build a connected scene in the drawing room ↗

Gilded initials & living margins

Illuminated

Botanical miniatures, decorated capitals and jewel colors inspired by manuscript illumination. Original ornaments with Cormorant Garamond letterforms.

Gold tendrils
Lapis & vermilion
Leaf-shaped counters
Decorated capitals

FROM THE COLLECTION, INTO YOUR HANDS

The composition desk

Start with a specimen. Add a flourish.
Make room for something unexpected.

24 px

48 px

Icon detail is drawn separately
for smaller sizes.

Include paper background in export

Keep your work

A library to make with.

These are original procedural studies of historical and contemporary visual traditions. Each family brings its own shapes and composition rules. The illuminated and Gothic alphabets use open-license letterforms; see credits.