The Art & Practice of Typography / A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement

by Edmund G. Gress

EXAMPLE 510
Ascertaining the proper optical length of line by measuring a lower-case alphabet-and-a-half of each size and style of type. This method furnishes a practical rule for determining lengths of line. (Read pages [187] and [188].) The accompanying scales may be used for measurements

EXAMPLE 511
Moxon’s Italic capitals of 1676

Examples [511], [512] and [514] are reproductions of Moxon’s drawings (1676) of the Italic types of a Dutch punch cutter. They show the character of Italic used in the seventeenth century. The long s of that time is included in Example [512], and Example [514] shows the decorated Italic capitals that we know as “Swash letters.”

EXAMPLE 513
Resetting in Cloister types of an example on page [15] of this book of the original Italic types of Aldus and Francia

Swash Italic capitals and the old-style long s are to be had with Caslon Oldstyle. See Example [517]. The Italic mates of a few of the present-day Romans are shown in Example [516].

EXAMPLE 512
The Italic lower-case of Moxon, with long “s” (ſ)