The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 205
each think theirstyle the best. There is one thing that may besaid of New York, and that is, there is such aconglomeration of styles to be seen, that one canscarcely tell what is local and what has been takenfrom some other city. This is owing to the influxof letterers from all parts of the world,… … Fig. 36.—Full Block Letters. national. The letters on a vehicle should be bold;that is, as free from fantastic twists and turns aspossible,so that the hurried reader may comprehendat once its import. If one is obliged to stop a car tostudy out the lines of letters, before risking him-self on a…
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