Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 161
rly belongingto the letters they unite to represent ; but the designer need have no compunction in departing widely from the normal proportion and symmetry observable in the separate letters. The consideration ^^ ^5H S w I is now the shapeliness of ^^^^ B^B J tlie monogram, not of the V,^^^ J^Wr ^M… … I27 must be all of one handwriting. The incongruousassociation of Roman and Gothic letters, floridand simple, is intolerable in proportion as thediverse characters are pronounced. And, exceptin the unusual case of a monogram designed to beseen from all sides, the letters should have oneand the same…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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