Writing & Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston

Writing & Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston

Author:Edward Johnston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2017-08-14T16:00:00+00:00


THE QUALITIES OF GOOD LETTERING

The first general virtue of lettering is readableness, the second, fitness for a given Use, And the rational basis of the following summary is the assumption that such fitness is comprised in beauty and character, and that a given piece of lettering having readableness, beauty, and character has the essential virtues of good lettering.

The qualities on which these virtues seem chiefly to depend, and their special significations in the case of plain writing, may be set forth as follows:—



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