Fleuron (typography)

[2] Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style calls the forms "horticultural dingbats".

[3] A commonly encountered fleuron is the ❦, the floral heart or hedera (ivy leaf).

[6] Fleurons were crafted the same way as other typographic elements were: as individual metal sorts that could be fit into the printer's compositions alongside letters and numbers.

Because the sorts could be produced in multiples, printers could build up borders with repeating patterns of fleurons.

The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf");[7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also supported.