Of the Just Shaping of Letters

“...Architects, painters amp; others at times are wont to set an inscription on lofty walls, it will make for the merit of the work that they form the letters correctly. Accordingly I am minded here to treat briefly of this. And first I will give rules for a Latin Alphabet, and then for one of our common Text: since it is of these two sorts of letters we customarily make use in such work; and first, for the Roman letters: Draw for each a square of uniform size, in which the letter is to be contained. But when you draw in it the heavier limb of the letter, make this of the width of a tenth part of the square, and the lighter a third as wide as the heavier: and follow this rule for all letters of the Alphabet...lt;img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dia/kitadagitim/ckeditor_assets/pictures/53/content_1_original_original.jpg" alt="" height="15" width="15" gt;lt;font size="1" color="white"gt;lt;/fontgt;lt;/imggt;