Blessing, George F. (George Frederick), 1875-1921, Darling, Lewis A. (Lewis Andrew) · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 60
e. Rules that will prove valuableto the beginner are given below but the appearance of the fin-ished work, in so far as spacing is concerned, will in the enddepend upon the judgment exercised in maintaining the ap-pearance of equal areas between the letters. The distance between letters is measured… … have been carefully found by laying out on a large scale variousside-line combinations (see above figure) and determining a spac- 40 ELEMENTS OF DRAWING ing that, in view of the area enclosed, gives the best spacing forsuch a combination. In the illustration the shaded portion rep-resents the area…
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