A Roman alphabet and how to use it; a conventional Roman alphabet with full directions for its use in the lettering problems required in public, normal, art, and technical schools, and for the lettering problems which arise in the practice of architects, commercial illustrators, show-card writers and sign painters (1917)
Frederick, Frank Forrest, 1866-1942 · Trenton, N.J., F.F. Frederick · leaf 17
ed for a multitude of purposes—for book covers, posters, advertise-ments, for show-cards and for signs, and on all machine and architecturaldrawings. Every letter appearing upon the printed page was sometimedesigned by somebody. There is nothing that the designer or the draftsman needs more thanthe… … ■■■ No. 1, See page 9. Most students think that lettering (not printing, for that is doneupon a printing press) is a simple matter that can be done offhand in ahurry. They will often spend hours of painstaking labor upon a draw-ing and then add the lettering as a hurried after-thought, and resent…
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