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Roman small-letter spacing and proportions as stated in Brown's Letters & Lettering, Chapter II
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For letterers and book designers who want the rules of thumb one 1921 treatise gives for small Roman letters: spacing, ascender and descender proportions, and where pen work may depart from type. It is a documentary reading of one chapter with the illustrations not read, and its checklist is untested curator analysis.
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Guide title
Roman small-letter spacing and proportions as stated in Brown's Letters & Lettering, Chapter II
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For letterers and book designers who want the rules of thumb one 1921 treatise gives for small Roman letters: spacing, ascender and descender proportions, and where pen work may depart from type. It is a documentary reading of one chapter with the illustrations not read, and its checklist is untested curator analysis.
Useful starting points
- The chapter says its proportions are not invariable, so treat them only as a starting point.
- It says a pen letterer should not follow type spacing rules blindly and should set spacing by how it looks.
- It says lines of small letters cannot sit closer together than their ascenders and descenders allow.
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