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Learning Roman capitals

These two pages show how Bettina was taught Roman
capitals. First she drew her own letters and then David
Kindersley went through them separately, re-drawing
each one and, most important, explaining the reason
why. This way Bettina felt that what she was learning
did not just apply to 'that' particular letter but to any
other 0 or M, for instance, in the future. She says that
once Roman letters are in your system you can do
almost anything. When she was introduced to
lettering, Bettina was surprised to find that the area
between letters was just as important as the letters
themselves.

This was her first stone-cut alphabet. She had trouble
spacing it and it was David's idea to reduce the size of
the Q and W. Perhaps this led to the X Y Z solution,
and it certainly added to the character of the layout.

These letters speak for themselves. Anyone wishing
to improve their Roman capitals would do well to
study these same size letters and the page opposite, and
deduce from them the concepts that David was
teaching.