Write these four sets
In this order, with a blank ruled line between each set, and a gap between every character. A set can run onto a second line.
Print it, or copy the same page into any ruled notebook. Write over the grey characters in a dark pen, not pencil. The ghosts and the ruling print in the same grey, and neither one ends up in your font.
One and three decide whether the photograph can be read at all. Two and four decide whether the font is any good.
- 01
Write in a dark pen. Not pencil, and not the grey of the printed rules.
OtherwiseNothing separates your ink from the ruling, and we cannot read the page at all.
- 02
Leave a gap between every character. Lift the pen after each one.
OtherwiseTwo touching characters are cut out as one, and both come out wrong in the font.
- 03
Leave one blank ruled line between each set.
OtherwiseThe four sets read as one block, and the page comes back as the wrong layout.
- 04
Finish with a line of ordinary writing, six words or more, joined up the way you normally join them.
OtherwiseLetter spacing has nothing to measure, so every letter sits the same distance from the next and the font reads like a typeface.
Two lines off one page, at the same magnification. Same hand, same pen, ten centimetres apart.
Inside the four sets
Seven characters, seven gaps. Each one can be cut out on its own, which is the whole of the job.
On the last line
The same hand further down the page. Joining up is fine there, because that line is measured rather than cut up. Written this way inside the four sets, w-r-i comes out as one character.
81 characters. Keep this open while you write — it’s the page you’re copying.