The art of lettering and sign painter’s manual : a complete and practical illustration of the art of sign writing / by A. P. Boyce (1878)
Boyce, Allen P, Lyford and Boyce · Boston [Mass.] : A. Williams and Co. · leaf 6
e. R N T T P Q, Large curve. D R S T L Q, Hair-line. The thickness, E P, is two-ninths of the height. The width, E N G P, is seven-eighths of the height. The thickness, M N 0 P, is a little greater than E F G II, onaccount of the curved lines, which cause the thickness to appear lessthan it really… … CHARACTER AND. The circle is about two-thirds of the height. The thickness is a little more than two-ninths of the height. The greatest width about equal the height. The Roman character &■ is a modification of the Latinword el. The left-hand side was the e, which it very muchresembles now; the…
Lettering · Signs and signboards
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