About Robin Hood (Sherwood ballad)
Robin Hood (Sherwood ballad) is the design system of the greenwood outlaw tale — Lincoln-green dye, arrow fletching, and gilt oak-leaf heraldry pressed into the deep forest dark of a medieval woodcut. It draws on the pre-1900 printed tradition of the Robin Hood garlands: black-letter broadsides, hand-cut oak and yew borders, and the flat mineral greens of Kendal cloth. Every surface reads like a page from a chapbook read aloud by firelight under the greenwood canopy — dense with foliage at the edges, clearing to parchment at the centre, cut through by the straight diagonal of a loosed arrow.
- Origin
- England — Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire
- Era
- Ballad tradition 14th–17th c.; printed garlands & revival 1765–1888
- Key figures
- Joseph Ritson · Thomas Percy · Howard Pyle · Louis Rhead
- Movements
- English broadside ballad printing · Victorian medieval-revival illustration · Arts and Crafts book design
Robin Hood (Sherwood ballad) design spec
Colors
Typography
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