3. He Files very tenderly with the Small Files, especially with the Knife-Files, as well because they are Thin and Hard, not Temper’d, and therefore would snap to pieces with small violence; as also, lest with an heavy hand he should take away too much at once of that Stroak he is working upon.
§. 14. ¶. 1. Some Rules to be observed by the Letter-Cutter,
in the Cutting Roman, Italick, and the
Black English Letter.
1. The Stem and other Fat Stroaks of Capital Romans is five Parts of forty and two (the whole Body:) Or, (which is all one) one sixth part of the Heighth of an Ascending Letter (as all Capitals are Ascendents) as has been said before. Albertus Dürer took his Measure from the Heighth of Capitals, and assigned but one tenth part for the Stem.
2. The Stem, and other Fat Stroaks of Capitals Italick, is four parts of forty and two, (the Body.)
3. The Stem, and other Fat Stroaks of Lower-Case Roman, is three and an half parts of forty and two, (the Body.)
4. The Stem, and other Fat Stroaks of Lower-Case Italick, is three parts of forty and two, (the Body.)
5. Of English, the Short-Letters stand between nine parts of the Bottom-Line, and nine parts from the Top-Line; viz. upon three and thirty parts of forty and two, (the Body.)
6. The Stem of English Capitals is six parts of forty and two, (the Body.)
7. The Stem of English Lower-Case Letters is four parts of forty and two, (the Body.)