Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters viz. the Roman, Italick, English capitals and small : shewing how they are compounded of geometrick figures, and mostly made by rule and compass, useful for writing masters, painters, carvers, masons, and others that are lovers of curiosity / by Joseph Moxon ...

S

Here are four Circles made to draw S, and the Cen∣tres of them all lie in the same Erect. To describe the first Circle set your Compasses to 8 ½, and pla∣cing one Foot in Parallel 33 ½, Erect 8 ½, (as at 1.) with the other Foot describe a Circle. Set your Com∣passes to 5 ¾, and placing one Foot in Parallel 35 ¾, (as at 2.) with the other Foot describe a second Circle. Set your Compasses to 9, and placing one Foot in Pa∣rallel 21, Erect 8 ½, (as at 3.) with the other Foot describe a third Circle. Set your Compasses to 6 ¼, and placing one Foot in Parallel 18 ¾, (as at 4.) with the other Foot describe a fourth Circle. I need not teach you how these Circles are wrought into an S, because the Letter it self shews you plainly. But the Buttings at Top and Foot are thus made: Set off at the Intersection of the first Circle with the Erect of the third Circle 5 downwards, and from thence draw a straight line into the Top-line; from this

straight line set off in the Top-line 5 towards the left hand, and by two occult Arches made on these two points in the Top-line you will find a Centre, (as at Fig. 5.) whereon (your Compasses set to 5) you may describe the Arch for the Hollow of the Head of S. For the Butting and Hollow at the Foot draw a straight line through the left hand verge of the first Circle into the Foot-line, and in Parallel 21, (which is the Parallel wherein the Centre of the third Circle lies) make therein a Prick for the upper end of the Butting, from thence draw a straight line in the same Erect into the Foot-line for the whole But∣ting; from this point of Butting in the Foot-line (your Compasses set to 5) measure into the third Circle, and on these two points describe two occult Arches, whose Intersections shall be a Centre, (as at Fig. 6.) whereon you may describe the Hollow at the Foot of S. How the Tail of S falls off from a Circle towards the Butting you may perceive by the Letter it self, and accordingly work it in by hand.