Comment on Icon search engineparentComments−jiaaro15ywhen you're using a chisel on stone. you need to hit it straight down, creating a divet (the serif) to get the cut started.If you put the chisel diagonal and hit it with a hammer right off the bat, it just slides across the stone, and you usually hurt your thumb ;)−wnoise15yThat doesn't seem all that implausible, but I'd expect the divot wouldn't need to be any wider than rest of the line.
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when you're using a chisel on stone. you need to hit it straight down, creating a divet (the serif) to get the cut started.
If you put the chisel diagonal and hit it with a hammer right off the bat, it just slides across the stone, and you usually hurt your thumb ;)
That doesn't seem all that implausible, but I'd expect the divot wouldn't need to be any wider than rest of the line.