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 176
dentified. By the same means any one lettermay be emphasised at will. Thanks, therefore,to colour, or to texture, the artist is enabled safelyto venture upon combinations of letters which,apart from it, would be inextricably involved. Ofthe Gothic minuscule cyphers on page 136 the 141 one (114)… … I20. CUTWORK CYPHER, A M. often occur in cypher or monogram design; weappear to have made up our minds in favour ofcapitals—though a foreigner does not seem to seethe objection which we have to beginning hissignature with a small letter. In the case of letterswhich spell a name, we might well…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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