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| Image title: | 3.—Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals. |
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| Source: | Brown, Frank Chouteau: “Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples” (1921) |
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| Keywords: | lettering, alphabets, diagrams, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
Width proportions, which may be found useful in laying out lettering for lines of a given length, are shown in [Fig. 3] in a more modern style of the Roman capital. In the classic Roman letter the cross-bar is usually in the exact center of the letter height, but in 3 the center line has been used as the bottom of the cross-bar in b, e, h, p, and r, and as the top of the cross-bar in a; and in letters like k, y and x the “waist lines,” as the meeting-points of the sloping lines are sometimes called, have been slightly raised to obtain a more pleasant effect.” (p. 6) The diagram is signed F.C.B., which I take to denote the author of the book, Frank Chouteau Brown. |
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| Dimensions: | 88 x 132mm (3.5 x 5.2 inches) |
| Filename: | 003-Proportions-q75-648x955.jpg |
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| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/4/pages/003-Proportions/ |
| Artist: | Frank Chouteau Brown |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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