Figures [27], and [35] to [41] show various pen or printed forms of capital letters redrawn from the handiwork of Renaissance masters. The capital letters shown in [27] are unusually beautiful, and their purity of form is well
displayed in the outline treatment. Perhaps the best known standard example of a Renaissance pen-drawn letter is that by Tagliente, reproduced in [35] and [36]. In spite of their familiarity it has seemed impossible to omit the set of capitals, with variants, by Albrecht Dürer, [37] and [38]; for Dürer's letters were taken as a basis by nearly all such Renaissance designers of lettering as Geoffrey Tory, Leonardo da Vinci, etc. It should be observed in the Dürer
alphabet that among the variant forms of individual letters shown, one is usually intended for monumental use, while another exhibits pen treatment in the characteristic swelling of the round letters, etc.
