"...Architects painters & others at times are wont to set an inscription on lofty walls it will make for the merit of the work that they form the letters correctly. Accordingly I am minded here to treat briefly of this. And first I will give rules for a Latin Alphabet and then for one of our common Text: since it is of these two sorts of letters we customarily make use in such work; and first for the Roman letters: Draw for each a square of uniform size in which the letter is to be contained. But when you draw in it the heavier limb of the letter make this of the width of a tenth part of the square and the lighter a third as wide as the heavier: and follow this rule for all letters of the Alphabet..."