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Rh used high up on a wall, and where there is plenty of space at the disposal of the painter. This character does not admit of shadows or thickness, as it is in itself so solid that any addition to its form renders it clumsy.

For situations nearer the eye, Fig. 66 is given, in which the letters are thinner and the general form more open. The

form is thus rendered altogether more elegant and may be either used plain, or with thickness and shading. The letters require great care in outlining, so that all the lines may be kept of the same thickness, and that the same character may be preserved throughout.

The character shown in the last example is well adapted for situations where the inscription is only of moderate

length, compared with the space at the disposal of the painter. Fig. 67, however, shows how the letters given in Fig. 66 may be narrowed, or, as it is termed, elongated, so as to get a long inscription into a moderate space, and the sans-serif letter is better adapted than any other for this purpose, being, as it were, self-contained, that is, having