About Bentley Snowflake
Bentley Snowflake recreates the look of Wilson A. Bentley's photomicrographs: a single six-fold ice crystal caught on black velvet, the negative's ground scraped to dense pure black so the cool near-white dendrite reads with clinical clarity. Every plate is centred, monochrome, and hand-numbered.
The system is built for specimen-style presentation. Typewriter monospace carries every label and caption, hexagonal symmetry governs ornament, and colour is forbidden — only the gray ladder between crystal white and photographic black.
- Origin
- Jericho, Vermont, USA
- Era
- 1900-1950 (1902-era photomicrographs; Bentley active 1885-1931)
- Key figures
- Wilson A. "Snowflake" Bentley
- Movements
- early scientific photomicrography · meteorological microphotography
Bentley Snowflake design spec
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