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 ...

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Draw an Erect line, and on it set off half a part at the Head, and half a part at the Foot, for the thick∣ness of the Head and Foot of s. Then set your Compasses to 3, and measuring in the same Erect from the point set off at the Head, you have the Centre of the inner Circle of the Head of s; from the bottom of this inner Circle set off 3 ½, viz. one Stem in the Erect. Then set your Compasses to 3 ¾, and measure in the same Erect from the point set off for the thickness of s, at the Foot you have the Cen∣tre

of the inner Circle of the Foot. Set your Com∣passes to half the distance between the Top of this Circle and the Head of s, and that half distance shall be the Centre whereon you may describe the outer Circle of the Head. Set your Compasses to half the distance between the bottom of the inner Circle and the Foot-line, and that half distance shall be the Centre whereon you may describe the outer Circle of the Foot. For the Dots at Head and Foot set off one Stem, viz. 3 ½, from the Head and Foot-line, that is, in the Parallels of 14 ½ and 26 ½; and where that setting off the inner Circles of Head and Foot, shall be the Centre whereon the Compasses set to 1 ¾, you may describe Circles for the Dots.