A letterform, letter-form or letter form is a term used especially in typography, palaeography, calligraphy and epigraphy to mean a letter's shape. A letterform...

the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are...

Letterform Archive is a non-profit museum and special collections library in San Francisco, California dedicated to collecting materials on the history...

recently returned from his Grand Embassy in Western Europe. The new letterforms, called the Civil script, became closer to those of the Latin alphabet;...

a sans-serif, sans serif (/ˈsæn(z) ˈsɛrɪf/), gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end...

in letterforms largely corresponding to modern upper-case, and handwritten text was generally in the form of cursive, which includes letterforms corresponding...

1450, wherein one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform. Linguists use letter frequency analysis as a rudimentary technique for...

train of thought within the author's narrative without paragraphs. The letterform of the pilcrow resembles a minuscule q or a mirrored majuscule P, with...

the letter it follows, ⟨Г г⟩, is called he. The letterform of this letter is based on the letterform of the letter ⟨Г г⟩, but its handwritten and italic...

In typography, a fat face letterform is a serif typeface or piece of lettering in the Didone or modern style with an extremely bold design. Fat face typefaces...

grouped together for a common purpose that are not exactly complementary in letterform structure. They can allow organizations to expand their image and style...

the same. — Hoefler & Frere-Jones The strokes are the components of a letterform. Strokes may be straight, as in k l v w x z, or curved, as in c o s. If...

Buginese poetry. This script uses the Eastern Arabic numerals-inspired letterform to substitute the Lontara script, as a way to hide it to the Dutch at...

studied under Oscar Ogg, George Salter, and Tommy Tompson. Baker studied letterforms and historical calligraphic styles, about which he wrote many books....

6th century, a Latin alphabet was adopted, written with half-uncial letterforms. It included the runic letters wynn ⟨ƿ⟩ and thorn ⟨þ⟩, and the modified...

Cornu-Britannica, 1790. Because of the relative ease of creating this letterform using traditional printing methods, it had frequent and varied historical...

cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter...

new alphabet for the modern Montenegrin language. The most common early letterform (Ѕ ѕ) resembles the Latin letter S (S s), but it is also seen reversed...

abbreviation was C. IVLIVS CÆSAR, reflecting the older spelling. (The letterform Æ is a ligature of the letters A and E, and is often used in Latin inscriptions...

Rounded letterforms tend to be more prevalent with handwritten styles (compare printed and handwritten arban 'ten'). Final letterforms with a right-pointing...

chiseled into stone. During the Early Middle Ages, scribes developed new letterforms for use in running text that were more legible and faster to write with...

engravings of a letterform. This letterform could be in any metal, so engraving increasingly began to be done by cutting a letterform in soft typemetal...

organic quality. The letterforms have a high x-height, a vertical axis, and maintain generous counter-form in and around the letterforms. Descending characters...

In 1972, OM redesigned its logo, this time preferring a complex "M" letterform. In 1986, the club re-adopted its first badge; the logo evolved slightly...

(January 7, 2016). "We asked 15 typographers to describe their favorite letterforms. Here's what they told us". WIRED. Archived from the original on February...

between true italics and oblique type is that true italics have some letterforms different from the roman type, but in oblique type letters are just slanted...

alphabet specifically for non-religious use, and adopted Latin-influenced letterforms for type. The Civil Script eliminated some archaic letters (Ѯ, Ѱ, Ѡ,...

entirely from the mainstream printing process. History of western typography Letterform Matrix (printing) Typeface Typography Typeface anatomy A.A. Stewart (1919)...

A reverse-contrast or reverse-stress letterform is a typeface or custom lettering where the stress is reversed from the norm, meaning that the horizontal...

visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letterforms while tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range...