I say (for Example) He considers how many Long-Letters are m thick, how many Long-Letters are n thick, and how many Long-Letters are Space thick, in the _Roman_; and also considers which of these must be Counter-punch’d, and which not: For (as was said before) those Letters that are to be Counter-punch’d are to have about twice the Heighth and twice the Thickness of the Face of the _Counter-Punch_, for the Reason aforesaid. But the Letters not to be Counter-punch’d need no more Substance but what will just contain the Face of the Letter; and makes of these three Sizes three Wooden Patterns, of the exact Length, Heighth and Thickness that the Steel _Punches_ are to be Forged to. He also counts how many are Ascendents and Descendents, m thick, n thick, and Space thick; still considering how many of them are to be Counter-punch’d, and how many not; and makes Wooden Patterns for them. The like he does for short-letters; and makes Wooden Patterns for them, for Steel _Punches_ to be Forged by. And as he has made his Patterns for the _Roman_, so he makes Patterns for the _Italick_ Letters also; for the same shap’d _Punches_ will not serve for _Italick_, unless he should create a great deal more Work to himself than he need do: For _Italick Punches_ are not all to be Forged with their sides square to one another, as the _Romans_ are; but only the highest and lowest sides must stand in Line with the highest and lowest sides of the _Roman_; but the Right and Left-Hand sides stand not parallel to the Stems of the _Roman_, but must make an Angle of 20 Degrees with the _Roman_ Stems: so that the Figure of the Face of the _Punch_ will become a _Rhomboides_, as it is called by _Geometricians_, and the Figure of this Face is the Slope that the _Italick_ Letters have from the _Roman_, as in proper place shall be further shewed. Now, should the _Punches_ for these Letters be Forged with each side square to one another, the _Letter-Cutter_ would be forced to spend a great deal of Time, and take great pains to File away the superfluous Steel about the Face of the Letter when he comes to the Finishing of it, especially in great Bodied Letters. Yet are not all the _Italick_ Letters to be Forged on the Slope; for the _Punches_ of some of them, as the _m n_, and many others, may have all, or, at least, three of their sides, square to one another, though their Stems have the common Slope, because the ends of their Beaks and Tails lie in the same, perpendicular with the Outer Points of the Bottom and Top of their Stems, as is shewed in the Drafts of Letters.