Alphabets and Numerals (1909). Letters carved by Eric Gill for a book, "Manuscript and Inscription Letters for Schools and Classes and for the Use of Craftsmen" (Edward Johnston 1909).[1] He later gave them to the Victoria and Albert Museum so they could be used by students at the Royal College of Art.
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 is a type of glyph, which is a specific, concrete way of writing an abstract character or grapheme.
For example, medieval scholars may discuss the particular handwritten letterforms that distinguish one script from another.[2]
The history of letterforms is discussed in fields of study relating to materials used in writing. Epigraphy includes the study of letterforms carved in stone or other permanent materials. Palaeography is the study of writing in ancient and medieval manuscripts. Calligraphy treats the letterforms of decorative writing, usually in ink. In the field of typography, type design is the process of designing typefaces that consist of sets of letterforms for use with metal print or computer. More broadly letterforms may be discussed wherever letters appear stylistically—in graffiti for example.
^Edward Johnston (1909). Manuscript and Inscription Letters for Schools and Classes and for the Use of Craftsmen ... With 5 plates by A.E.R. Gill. OCLC 561934412.
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 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;...
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...
1450 AD, where one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform. Linguists use letter frequency analysis as a rudimentary technique for...
the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are...
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...
cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required...
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...
and hâ-ye do-češm (literally "two-eyed he", after the contextual middle letterform ـهـ), respectively. Historically, in Early New Persian, there was a special...
Rounded letterforms tend to be more prevalent with handwritten styles (compare printed and handwritten arban 'ten'). Final letterforms with a right-pointing...
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...
Paleography. Oxford: Clarendon. p. 108, 144. Hopkins, Edward C. D. (2004). "Letterform Usage | Numismatica Font Projects" Parthia. de Lisle, Christopher (2020)...
Boston Braves) — now the Atlanta Braves — became the first team to wear letterforms when they added a monogram-style device to their caps, followed by three...
the early nineteenth century, having little in common with previous letterforms. As the printing of advertising material began to expand in the early...
stone and "one of the first formal uses of Western letterforms"; after that, Roman lapidary letterforms evolved into the monumental capitals, which laid...
Stephen (2016-01-07). "We asked 15 typographers to describe their favorite letterforms. Here's what they told us". WIRED. Archived from the original on 2017-02-03...
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...
"poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess", but never "poſſeſſ"). The modern ⟨s⟩ letterform is known as the "short", "terminal", or "round" s. In typography, the...
have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. The rules governing ligature...
addition, reading the manuscript itself requires familiarity with the letterforms of the native script. The abbreviations are expanded in a version with...
abbreviations, ligatures, precomposed characters, symbols, and alternate letterforms found in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet. The express purpose...
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...
while 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...
Unicode version 11.0 in June 2018. They are capital letters with similar letterforms to Mkhedruli, but with descenders shifted above the baseline, with a...
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