Elements of lettering ... A treatise on the history, classification, and practical application of the various styles of letters of the alphabet (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer company · leaf 45
hat will cause them to represent aletter, and any form, therefore, is allowableso long as the letter may be recognized.To accomplish this, objects such as ahuman figure, a piece of rope or ribbon,broken boards, leaves, vines, and trunk of the tree, are used. Of the three latter forms, the rustic… … Fig. 29. 32 ELEMENTS OF LETTERING. §1 great skill in their arrangement. And, while they may bepleasing to the eye, they are of no practical importance to thestudent in the study of the forms of the letters, as their pro-portions are purely arbitrary. Fig. 30 shows the forms of
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