# Of the Just Shaping of Letters

Author: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528; Nichol, R. T. [Translator]

Genre: Category: Mathematics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37103

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## Summary

Now, since 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...

## Chapters

- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-just-shaping-of-letters-37103/chapters/1/index.md)
- [letter I; then take two points e. and f., distant respectively one-tenth](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/of-the-just-shaping-of-letters-37103/chapters/2/index.md)