The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers (1912)
French, Thomas Ewing, 1871-1944, Meiklejohn, Robert · New York [etc.] : McGraw-Hill book company · leaf 20
Figs. 9 and 10 contain a carefully drawn RenaissanceRoman alphabet. The stems are one-ninth of theheight of the letter, and the hair lines one-half thewidth of the stems. The width of each letter is given in units, the unitbeing one-ninth of the height of the letter. A scaleshould be made by… … IlG. g.—Roman Alphabet (lirst hallj, with a Method of Geometrical Construclion ior Large Letters. 10
Lettering · Alphabet · Monograms
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