Of the Just Shaping of Letters — Albrecht Dürer

Architects painters 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 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 font size 1 color white font img