- 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...
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Letterform Archive is a non-profit
museum and
special collections library in San Francisco,
California dedicated to
collecting materials on the history...
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recently returned from his
Grand Emb****y in
Western Europe. The new
letterforms,
called the
Civil script,
became closer to
those of the
Latin alphabet;...
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cursive style, and
includes 28 letters, of
which most have
contextual letterforms. The
Arabic alphabet is
considered an abjad, with only
consonants required...
- 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...
- 1450 AD,
where one must
estimate the
amount of type
required for each
letterform.
Linguists use
letter frequency analysis as a
rudimentary technique for...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
