So, accordingly, have I set them down--in skeleton in rotation, and in proper order in black. This (as I said above) is the antique form of the letters; but in these days there is used a more elegant text, and a diagonal square is substituted in the middle place for a right square, so that the lines of the letters are not so much curved; and there are made certain limbs adjoined and cleft; and there are set one on another three squares & a half; and spaces are left between two limbs as great as their width. Letters of this sort also have I set forth on the third page following; as also capital letters, which are called "versals," because they are customarily set at the beginning of a verse; and these ought to be made one-third higher than the remaining shorter letters in writing. [Illustration: i n m r r u v w b q x c e t l s f h k d o p a z z z g y s] [Illustration: a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r r s s t u v w x y z z z] [Illustration: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T V X Y Z Q * a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s s t u v w x y z] Here ends this little Book. End of Project Gutenberg's Of the Just Shaping of Letters, by Albrecht Dürer