florilegium
Procedurally generated Delft-blue floral page margins for LuaLaTeX, drawn in Lua
florilegium launched on 30 October 2026. It ranked #10 on Daily Launch on 31 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 69, from 790 stars in 1 day on GitHub. It was new in the ranking that day.
What is florilegium?
The Reddit post asked how to make flowers like these in LaTeX. I don't know how the original was made, and this project doesn't try to reproduce it. It is one possible way, and the way I did it: hand-authored primitives with randomized parameters, painted in Lua, placed by a procedural layout whose "fill the unused space" part borrows a 1998 idea from the ornament literature. It gets a similar look.
From its README on GitHub
florilegium is a repo by kevinraymond on GitHub. It is written in Lua and released under the MIT license.
How to get florilegium
Get it from its repository on GitHub.
Launch timeline
Launch Score, last 7 days
Ranked on one day so far: 69 of 100 on 31 October.