letterform
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- noun
- /ˈlɛtərˌfɔrm/
- Specialized
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forma de letra
- The graphic designer carefully selected a letterform that matched the brand's identity.
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Early in the process of learning to read, this skill area requires the child to be able to distinguish alphabet letterforms.
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Wild Style letterforms bend and fracture into other forms.
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Some type families use numbers rather than named descriptions to define each variation in letterform.
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The red of the body detail is cleverly echoed in the highlights of the letterform.
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Letterforms are still fairly uniform in stroke weights, but letters have a much more horizontal feel.
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For a change from the Clarendon, the British-made Lion press uses a bold Tuscan letterform.
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Gill Sans is now institutionalized as a British national letterform (seen, for example, in the typography of the BBC).
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A bronze plaque on the old Wells Fargo building on Montgomery Street in San Francisco, undated, has a condensed bold modern letterform.
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In essence, Clarendon is a condensed slab-serif letterform (known as Egyptian in its earliest lead incarnations), with brackets on the serifs.
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Johnson Banks explains: 'At large sizes, Retina seems to feature crude notches cut into the letterforms, but these are there to compensate for the way blobs of ink blur type at tiny sizes.'
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How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Letterform combines letter ('a written sign') and form ('shape'). So it simply means the 'shape' or design of a single written or printed letter, which is why people who design fonts or practise handwriting pay close attention to letterforms.