Good “тн—rough,” or “neigh-bour,” should not be
Lettering— allowed. Among other ways of dealing with small
Some spaces, without breaking words, are the following :—
Methods of Ending with Smaller Letters.—The scribe is al-
Construction ways at liberty to compress his writing slightly,
Sc Arrange- provided he does not spoil its readableness or beauty,
ment Occasionally, without harming either of these, a
marked difference in size of letter may be allowed ;
one or more words, or a part of one, or a single letter,
being made smaller (a, b, fig. 153 ; see also Plate V).
Monogrammatic Forms, &c.—In any kind 6f letter¬
ing, but more particularly in the case of capitals,
where the given space is insufficient for the given
capitals, monogrammatic forms resembling the ordi¬
nary diphthong Æ may be used; or the stem of
one letter may be drawn out, above or below, and
formed into another (c, fig. 153).
Linking.—Letters which are large enough may
be linked or looped together, or one letter may be set
inside another, or free-stem letters may be drawn up
above the line (d, fig. 153, but see p. xxiv).
Tying up.—One or more words at the end of a
line of writing—particularly in poetry (see p. 61)—
may be “tied up,” i.e. be written above or below the
line, with a pen stroke to connect them to it (fig. 67).
Care must be taken that none of these methods
lead to confusion in the reading. Their “Quaint¬
ness”—as it is sometimes called—is only pleasing
when their contrivance is obviously made necessary.
“massed writing” & “fine writing”
We may distinguish two characteristic modes of
treating an inscription, in which the treatment of
the letter is bound up with the treatment of the
spacing (fig. 154).
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And if I bestowal!
my opods to h?cti
the poor, and if I
owe my body tlut I
may otory, but Ime
not love/it pro
crii me потігиг^
Ljfove suiicretk lonj'',
art^ is l
love vauntedi not itseU"
jnmm up,
is not
Fig. 154.
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Good
Lettering—
Some
Methods of
Construction
& Arrange¬
ment