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The use in modern graphic design is derived from book publishing techniques dating back to the Middle Ages Analytical Bibliography (ca. 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
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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.
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meaning a unique form for a frame to an image, either illustration or photograph. Rather than the image's edges being
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process of introducing a screen. An oval vignette is probably the most common example.
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and are also used to separate sections or chapters are identified as a
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Originally a vignette was a design of vine-leaves and tendrils (
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In graphic design, a unique form for a frame to an image
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