Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students; a practical system of freehand lettering for working drawings . h of line at one stroke or other-wise will in turning detach minute particles of paper ortracing-cloth saturated with ink and deposit them at theside of the stroke, necessitating erasures. The methodoutlined (employing two strokes) is therefore by far thesimplest and quickest way of producing a clean letter, asexperience will show. It will at first be a somewhatdifficult matter to the beginner to lay the main axis ofthis letter parallel with the down-stroke, but this isnevertheless
Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students; a practical system of freehand lettering for working drawings . h of line at one stroke or other-wise will in turning detach minute particles of paper ortracing-cloth saturated with ink and deposit them at theside of the stroke, necessitating erasures. The methodoutlined (employing two strokes) is therefore by far thesimplest and quickest way of producing a clean letter, asexperience will show. It will at first be a somewhatdifficult matter to the beginner to lay the main axis ofthis letter parallel with the down-stroke, but this isnevertheless an essential point and should not be lostsight of. Capital Letters. As in the rule laid down for the lower case letters,the capital letters will generally be five spaces defined clean corners are again necessary, andto secure this the beginner may find it advantageous tocurve the upper and lower ends of the down-strokes alittle outwards. The letter A, Fig. 12, should be made in threestrokes, with the secondalmost vertical. The cross-stroke should be placed low—about the middle of the pig. second space from the bottom. The short third 11
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