Ornate Rose Ampersand
Inspiration
This ampersand was inspired by Louis John Pouchée’s “lost” alphabets. The letterforms are fat faces and slab serifs that were created from woodcuts in the early 1820’s. The alphabets were thought to have burned in a fire at Monotype’s London office in 1940. Luckily, that’s not the case. These alphabets are beautiful and highly ornamented, and I just fell in love the first time I saw them. You can read about them at typeroom.eu and at eyemagazine.com
While the style and overall feel of the ampersand was inspired by Pouchée, my take on the floral elements was influenced by neo traditional tattoo styles (though without the bold, bright colors).
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