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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Ƨ (minuscule: ƨ) is a letter which appears in numerous alphabets, including some proposed extensions of the Latin alphabet. Depending on the context in...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

the same meaning. One paper by Leonhard Euler was typeset with an open letterform more closely resembling a reflected and sideways S than a lemniscate (something...

the early nineteenth century, having little in common with previous letterforms. As the printing of advertising material began to expand in the early...

designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription...

reassignment; also potentially derived from Greek Ο /o/; possibly the letterform was switched with 𐌸; also possibly pictographic in nature, with O for...