Elements of lettering <with XIII full-page plates> (1922)
Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 · New York : M. Kennerley · leaf 28
-[ i4 ]- the letter O, “to a juster proportion,11 and this shaping “with your hand11 is often the nub of the whole matter. “Now O you shall make this way in its square. Set in the square the diameter c. b. and bisect it in the point e., so that e. may form a middle … PROPORTIONS OF ROMAN CAPITALS. FROM DRAWINGS BY DURER point between the two points f. and g. which are to be your two cerr tres; and from each let a circle be described touching two sides of the square; where the circles cut one another, there with your hand you must shape the slender outline of…
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