letterform

Thus the letterform was well recognized and used in early Christian literature.

The modern letterform was called the terminal, round, or short s.

In one sense, letterform applies strictly to the design of individual letters.

In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon to print the letterform.

In another sense letterform applies to the individual shapes of letters that gives a text an aesthetic.

The palaeographic analysis of the letterform indicates an early, archaic date.

The single most difficult skill for the calligrapher to acquire is consistently good letterform in a rhythmic, written hand.

Tests also showed the importance of maintaining counter-form (the white space around the black letterform) in recognizing the face at smaller sizes.

The Met changed to a serif letterform for its signs in the 1920s, used on the stations rebuilt by Clark.

It is a titling capitals variant, which contains only capital letters, with restyled letterform.

In typography, the body height refers to the distance between the top of the tallest letterform to the bottom of the lowest one.

In 1972, Olympique redesigned its logo, this time preferring a complex "M" letterform.

Calligraphy gives unique expression to every individual letterform within a design layout which is not the strength of typeface technologies no matter their sophistication.

The creation of the magazine's logogram proved difficult, largely due to the inherent difficulties presented by the incompatible letterform combinations in the title.

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

As such, "letterform" applies not only to letters but to any graphic elements of a script, typeface or font (including numbers, symbols and punctuation).

Just van Rossum's typefaces combination of programming and letterform design has resulted in several developments in typeface design.

Cursive is considered distinct from printscript, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up script.

(The letterform is a ligature, which is often encountered in Latin inscriptions, where it was used to save space, and is nothing more than the letters "ae".)

A person could use special knives to cut stencils by hand, but handwriting was impractical, because any closed loop letterform would cut a hole and thus print as a black blob.

Courses included calligraphy, letterform and illustration and Lord was taught by amongst others, the modernist writer and artist Mervyn Peake and the surrealist Cecil Collins.

Lubalin's solution, one which sought to meet Ginzburg's hope for an expression of "the advanced, the innovative, the creative," consisted of tight-fitting letterform combinations to create a futuristic, instantly recognizable identity.

In accordance with Unicode policy, the standard does not include letterform variations or ligatures found in manuscript sources unless they can be shown to conform to the Unicode definition of a character.

A more recent face, FF Scala designed in 1990 by the Dutch type designer Martin Majoor (born 1960) is similar in its geometric simplicity combined with the old style letterform.

Whilst all these cards, by virtue of being made by professionals, do indeed exhibit excellent letterform in the writing, I have selected those whose design down to depend solely on this elusive, hard-won ability to 'write'.