Recycled Thoughts

This is a double page spread inspired by Horae in Laudem Beautissim ce Virginis Mariae Hours of Our Excellent Virgin Mary) by Geoffroy Troy, 1541. In the Renaissance when layouts and borders like this were popular, they were often found in books and manuscripts with a typeface that reflected the elegance of the border. The function of this type of layout would be to portray Biblical or academic writings.

The style of the F is typical of the Renaissance due to its embellished borders and grid-like square constraints. It also has the thicks and thins of the Renaissance style, as well as similar serifs.

I'm not sure if these days there would be a time, a place or an audience for a style like this, but if there were it would likely be for something earthy, to do with nature, or something biblical where a type of side story or related note could be portrayed in the border as it did in the Renaissance.