I work on RPG books. In a lot of those books, there are illustrations that do not have rectangular borders:
I know that the process is "text wrapping," but is there a concise way to describe an image without a background designed so that text abuts it on both sides easily?
Answer
Vignette.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vignette
- (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
This is what I was looking for, for anyone who ends up looking for the same term. The problem appears to be that it's obscure enough that most modern designers don't use or know of it, google search results don't include many examples of this definition. Still, it covers what I intended: a borderless illustration with no indication that the work is pre-made or "stock," or any indication of the background, shadows, or details of the image. It's specifically designed to be typeset around, or placed between paragraphs, without the need for re-design or modification.
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