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Serlio Architectural Orders — Cover

About Serlio Architectural Orders

Serlio's *Regole generali* took the five orders off the scaffold and onto one printed page, ranked Tuscan to Composite, every dimension a fraction of the column diameter. The plates are woodcut: black outline, parallel hatching, no colour on the sheet.

This system reads that page literally. Tone comes from line density, never from fill. Rules divide; nothing is boxed or shadowed. Roman capitals label, chancery italic annotates, and the paper stays the pale leaf it always was.

Learn more about the Serlio Architectural Orders style

Origin
Venice and the French court
Era
1537–1575 (Libro IV, Venice 1537; later books Paris and Lyon)
Key figures
Sebastiano Serlio · Baldassare Peruzzi · Francesco Marcolini · Vitruvius
Movements
Italian High Renaissance · Vitruvianism · treatise-and-plate tradition

Serlio Architectural Orders design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

CinzelHeadings
EB GaramondBody
Cutive MonoMono
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