A more highly finished type of pen-made Roman Capital may be made by blending the serifs and stems (d, p. [289]): it is nearer to the inscriptional form, but it exhibits a more curved and supple [p296] outline, which comes of natural pen-strokes (fig. [167]).
The remarks in Chapter VII. on the treatment of the more elastic “Gothic” Versal (a free variety [p297] of the Roman) may be taken as applying generally to (Coloured) Built-up Capitals—due allowance being made for the characteristic differences of the various types.
SIMPLE-WRITTEN CAPITALS
“Rustic Capitals” (fig. [4]) may be referred to here as typical, simple-written capitals. Though not a very practical form,[72] they are full of suggestions for a semi-ornamental lettering in which the pronounced treatment of the heads and feet might be a feature (comp. fig. [203]). They were used as ornamental letters for titles and the like (see Plates [VIII.], [IX.], &c.) for centuries after they had gone out of ordinary use.
Simple-written Roman Capitals.—(Examples: Plates [III.], [XVIII.], [XIX.], [XXI.], figs. [147], [148], [168], [175], [179]. See also pp. [247], [429].)
Uncials.—(Examples: see p. [300].)
Simple-written Capitals ordinarily conform to the writing line—as set by the small text (p. [82]). This applies even where several words in capitals have to be inserted in the small text, though in special cases where these might look too crowded such capitals might be written on alternate lines.
Used for Initial Words, headings, whole pages, or books, in black or colour, they are written with greater freedom and accorded more special treatment (see pp. [298], [299]).