Good
Lettering—
Some
Methods of
Construction
& Arrange¬
ment

another (fig. 149). We should therefore, when
constructing letters, give special attention to their

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SOME

of the mere
noteworthy

*СНАПАСТ
ERISTIC
f AKTÍ
Such clS
distinguish

C&G>

P*R;

QfmmO;
¿L&T

Twmoiher
stem -letters.
Jlnb receive
special treat

meneas A,

Fig. 149.

preservation, and sometimes they may even be accen¬
tuated with advantage—always with an eye to the
life-history, or evolution, of the letter in question,
and allowing for the influence of the special tool
with which it is to be made (see Proportion, below,
also Roman characterisation, p. 246).

214

PROPORTION

(jls having no part of a letter wrongly exaggerated or
dwarfed—see pp. 238, 241—2)

The right proportioning of letters entails the

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examination.

Fig. ijo.

preservation of their Essential Forms and their
Characteristic Parts, and, provided these are not

215

Good
Lettering—
Some
Methods of
Construction
& Arrange¬
ment