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 70
d descenders of the small letters;but the curves must be spontaneous. A laboredeffect is fatal. A general rule has been stated that styles of differentslopes should not be used together. The notable 59 Letters in Design exception to this rule is in the case of Old Roman andScript used in… … abcdaf^nvj^Imnopgrs/t Fig. S5.—Script, by RudoLf Koch. Italic and Script may be used in all caps or caps andlower-case. In practising inclined letters such as Figs. 83, 84and 85, slant direction lines should always be drawn as explained on page 27. The angle of slant varieswidely both in historical…
Lettering · Alphabet · Monograms
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