Layout of the title box recommended for Engineering Drawing Course
The title box shown in figure 2  can be used for  the engineering Drawing Course.

Figure 2. A typical title box recommended for Engineering students.

Lettering
Lettering is used for writing of titles, sub-titles, dimensions, scales and other details on a drawing. Typical lettering features  used for engineering drawing is shown in figure 3. The following rules are to be followed in lettering. The letter  sizes generally recommended for various items are shown in Table 1.

• Essential features of lettering – legibility, uniformity, ease, rapidity, and suitability for microfilming/photocopying/any other photographic processes
• No ornamental and embellishing style of letter
• Plain letters and numerals which are clearly distinguishable from each other in order to avoid any confusion even in case of slight mutilations

The Indian standard followed for lettering is  BIS: 9609

• Single stroke lettering for use in engineering drawing – width of the stem of the letters and numerals will be uniformly thick equal to thickness of lines produced by the tip of the pencil.
• Single stroke does not mean – entire letter written without lifting the pencil/pen

Lettering types generally used for creating a drawing are

• Lettering A – Height of the capital letter is divided into 14 equal parts
• Lettering B – Height of the capital letter is divided into 10 equal parts

Table 2  and Table 3 indicates the specifications for Type A and Type B letters.

 

Figure 3. Typical lettering  features.