“Design” in
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PART II
LETTERING

CHAPTER XIV

GOOD LETTERING SOME METHODS OF

CONSTRUCTION & ARRANGEMENT

Good Models—The Qualities of Good Lettering—Sim¬
plicity —Distinctiveness — Proportion — Beauty of
Form—Beauty of Uniformity—Right Arrangement
—Setting Out & Fitting In—“Massed Writing”
& “Fine Writing”—Even Spacing—Theory &
Practice.

GOOD MODELS

If lettering is to be rightly constructed and arranged,
the study of good models is essential. Some of the
writing and lettering in the old MSS., and the letters
used on various old tombstones and brasses, weeded
of archaisms, will be found almost perfect models.
Y et to select one of these from the many which are
“more or less” good, requires much discrimination.

It is suggested below that the essential virtues of
good lettering are readableness, beauty, and character.
If, then, we can discover some of the underlying
qualities which make for these, our choice will at
least be better considered, and instead of forming our

Good
Lettering—
Some
Methods of
Construction
& Arrange¬
ment

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