Volume 182402

Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing. With biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century: a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art / By J. Johnson, printer.

  • John Johnson
Date:
1824
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Credit: Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing. With biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century: a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art / By J. Johnson, printer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kerned characters, than be justified to them, which would render the composing of algebra more easy, and the work would have a more solid appearance. 2. In etymological dictionaries, the vowels, as well of large as of small capitals, might be kerned, to make room for the accent which governs the pro- nunciation of a word, whereby the separation which the acute makes between each letter, would be prevented. : 3. In Hebrew, one alphabet kerned on one side, and another on both sides, with vowels cast in the nature of Greek accents, would make room for the proper vowels to be put under consonants more their places. But kerned letters will not afford proper room for vowels and accents too, therefore the accents are justified over and under the re- spective places, when their quality is expressed. That some founders have been more liberal than others in kerning letters, appears from the care | from causing a gap, where it is preceded by capital letters which are not kerned ; especially when they A separates itself more perceptibly than from any of the other letters. The foregoing should (properly) be kerned, in order that their propensities may cover the back of the protruding angle of A. These are the ciasses into which the letter- founders divide the sorts of a fount, without in- cluding accented letters. DOUBLE LETTERS. DouBLE LETTERS were originally formed for the convenience of one kerned letter joining with ano- ther, asin the instance of a ff, ff, fi, ft, &c. as their |