A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 197
e placedat the beginning, end^ or middle of a word, or whetherit be used as a separate initial letter, has a very ugly,disconnected, and straggling appearance, and muchjudgment is required in regulating the width. As ageneral rule it will be found that it should never exceedthe width of letters… … Fig. 9. We shall next consider letters formed of horizontaland vertical, combined with oblique lines. The letter z is contained in a rectangle. Havingmarked the extremities of the upper and lower horizon-tals, draw a diagonal; the sides of the slanting memberwill then be parallel to this, half of…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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