Vignette (graphic design)

The word vignette (French " border decoration ", " badge ", from étroit " grapevine " ) originally referred to an identification of the vine at the edge of a vineyard, or the label of a wine bottle. Later, the word was transferred to marginal decorations in the printing industry. Meanwhile, it is mostly used as a synonym for stickers or seals.

Book jewelery

As a book, it refers to an ornamental decorative jewelry piece, usually a copper engraving or woodcut, often with pictorial representation, on the title page of a book ( frontispiece ). Even smaller drawings or pictures that are provided a printed text at the beginning or end of a chapter concomitantly are called vignettes. These vignettes were often made of type foundries as lead letters and could thus be easily integrated into the sentence, because, in contrast to copper engravings, plates etc. already to normal font height (62 2/3 Didot-Punkt/23, 566 mm) were cast.

Jewelry

As vignette also a variant of the portrait painting is called, which was especially popular in the 19th century. This (often oval ) Miniature paintings are made that can be worn in a jewelry piece, such as an amulet.

Special marking of the vignette is that the image to the edges is blurred out and gradually disappears in the background.

Photography

In photography, vignette called a mask with specific cutouts in front of a lens on a film camera, and is further to conceal certain points of a negative when copying.

Photographic postcards and portraits often have a similar effect, which stems in part from the nature of the lenses or lenses used, but is partly achieved through the targeted use of filters.

On-road use

Frequently toll is paid by means of a vignette. The motorway vignette in this case is a sticker that is glued to the windshield and indicating the validity period. During an inspection can thus be quickly determined if the toll was paid or not. So Vignettes for the toll to be used on the highways in Austria and Switzerland, further in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. In Switzerland, the bicycle vignette was used as evidence for the compulsory liability insurance for bikes by the end of 2011. 2012, the bicycle vignette abolished.

In Austria, the vignette is colloquially referred to as highway Pickerl.

The EU Commission

• Has issued a ' Communication on the collection of national road pricing on light private vehicles ' on May 14, 2012.
• She wants to make it clear (as of July 2012) by "guidelines" on how Member States can design their vignette systems for light private vehicles with EU law.
• It calls for the introduction of short- time vignettes, so that drivers are not disadvantaged from other Member States.
• She keeps tolling principle better than vignette systems, since it " is distance-dependent, directly associated with the use of the infrastructure " to.

The Centre for European Policy ( CEP ), a European policy think tank, says: The principle of proportionality requires that short vignettes are offered at reasonable rates.

Research

In qualitative research, the term also refers to short, self-contained scenes in observation protocols.