I started out using my parents old nitrocellulose T-Square and triangles when I was 11. I still used a T-Square for my summer at RISD, but once I started grad school, it was parallel rules from then on, except you needed the T-Square for constructing perspectives.
In the tribute page to a picnic shelter my dad did on NewHavenModern.org, I contributed a bunch of materials included pictures of both my parents at their drafting boards as well as a couple drawings. Having a tetrahedron for a roof, he was decidedly not drawing a square building in this case with that T-Square. I’ve contemplated making a model of it in SketchUp, but I don’t know when I’ll have the time to spare.
Well, not square in the shape sense but it is square in the linear sense. There are no curves, everything is straight. Easy enough to draw using a drawing board and an adjustable “square”.
It’s a fun structure but, being English myself, how is it English I wonder? I don’t see many buildings like that where I live!
BTW, for someone who works in design, you have a fantastic name!
You might be looking for something like this: D-DIN Font Free by datto » Font Squirrel
DIN 17 and DIN 1451 were the standards behind most of the lettering stencils
Oh, hahaha, it’s a person’s name. The benefactor’s name was apparently Henry Fowler English judging by a drawing for the bronze plaque that was subsequently stolen last I knew.
