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Oops. Sorry it didn't come out too perfectly. Here's our C. Let's look up here. A slightly
better form. Again, the C with the skin and bones and the C down here is just the skeletal
idea, but what I want you to notice is that there is, in all of these letters, what we
call a ductus or a lining sequence. So it's the order in which you're putting your strokes.
In the A it's one, two, three. In the B it's one, two, three, and in the C it's a nice
rounded, rounded feeling to this letter and when you get down to about here you're going
to go a little bit straighter, come back up to here and come around and go a little bit
straighter. What do I mean by straighter? It's almost like we call it a straight curve.
It's instead of staying rounded as you would with the O. So here is one of the first secrets
that I'm going to reveal to you. There's a natural principle that's at work with the
C. If we close this C up too much it's going to be read as an O. So what does that mean?