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Basic Drafting Skills Lettering: Education

The document discusses the basic skills of lettering for technical drawings, including guidelines for neat lettering such as using lettering templates and guides, uniform spacing between letters and words, and common lettering styles like ANSI single-stroke Gothic letters. Proper lettering is important to clearly convey information on drawings without misunderstanding and to improve the overall appearance. Standards for technical drawing lettering typically specify letter heights of 0.125 inches and fraction bars that are horizontal.

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Basic Drafting Skills Lettering: Education

The document discusses the basic skills of lettering for technical drawings, including guidelines for neat lettering such as using lettering templates and guides, uniform spacing between letters and words, and common lettering styles like ANSI single-stroke Gothic letters. Proper lettering is important to clearly convey information on drawings without misunderstanding and to improve the overall appearance. Standards for technical drawing lettering typically specify letter heights of 0.125 inches and fraction bars that are horizontal.

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Career &

Technical
Ed uc a t io n
Basic Drafting Skills
Lettering

003.02
Demonstrate correct
lettering techniques
Lettering
 Practice of adding clear, concise
words on a drawing to help people
understand the drawing
 Notes lettered on rough sketches
are functional and important to
operation
 Simple freehand lettering completes
the idea captured in a sketch
Purpose of Neat Lettering

 Most important reason is to


convey information without
misunderstanding

 Adds to the overall appearance


of the drawing
Lettering Composition

 Letter and word spacing should


be about uniform
 Space between words should equal
the approximate width of the letter
“O”
 Background area between letters
should appear equal
Guidelines

 Ames Lettering Guide


 Helps drafters create neat, uniform
lettering

 Lettering Template
 Aids in drawing guidelines
Guidelines
 Horizontal guidelines keep letters the
same height
 Vertical guidelines aid the eye in
keeping letters from slanting
 Guidelines are drawn very light and very
thin
 Do not need to be erased
 Uniform vertical space should be left
between lines of letters
Types of Lettering
 ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
 Recognizes the use of single-stroke
Gothic letters
 Letters are formed using a series of strokes
 Typically all capital letters are used
 Most common lettering on
Engineering Drawings
 Vertical, Uppercase, Gothic
Lettering Standards
 Typically, most letters are .125”
(3mm) tall
 Fractions are typically twice as
tall as numbers
 Fraction bar is horizontal and
does not touch the numbers
6 1
2
Single-stroke Vertical
Uppercase Letters

A BC
4 2

1 3
2
1 1
5

12 3
3 1
2

1
1
2
2
Lettering Assignments

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