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38 HISTORIC FEINTING TYPES. His geometri- cal system. Founder, tome I, p. xlx. note. aiid of his thinking. He went beyond his master. Tory required about one hundred squares for the framework of a letter, but Jaugeon needed 2304 squares for every full- bodied Eoman capital. Italic letters were to be con- structed with as many rhomboids and parallelograms. On the squares for the Eoman letter eight full circles must be drawn to make an A, and eleven to make a Gr. The system was undoubtedly scientific, but the practical punch-cutter of the royal printing-office refused to make use of it, doubting his ability to draw so many circles and squares in the area given to small book types. He stopped at the first rule of M. Jaugeon, " Consult the eyes as sovereign judges of form," and cut by eye more than by rule. Although the rules of Jaugeon were rejected, one of his proposed mannerisms was accepted by French founders. This mannerism was the displacement of the stubby, tri- angular serif at the ends of unconnected body-marks and the substitution of a flat unbracketed hair line, as will be shown in this comparison of three styles. MmMmM Bracketed Serif of the Modern Scotch-face. Flat Serif of the King's Roman. Stubby Serif of Garamond. This change may seem a small matter, but it seriously obscured the appearance of types. It compelled type-