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- noun Plural form of
letterform .
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Examples
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And yet those letterforms somehow convey an immediacy — in pullout quotes or strips of bulletin text.
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Although my handwriting is nice looking and perfectly legible, it did NOT follow the standard Zaner-Bloser letterforms and thus always got marked down.
Loosen Up Your Writing Grip To Banish Pain | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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To get that, I made the letterforms very narrow, with thin strokes.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I listened to a lot of archived interviews of John Updike in the wake of his death and was struck by how often he talked about his love for the “thinginess” (his word) of books: the paper, the ink, the letterforms, the jacket design, the heft.
Digital reviewing Roger Sutton 2009
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Many of the postings on this blog are far too technical for me, even as a great admirer of fonts and letterforms.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Made from recycled cardboard, Letterboxes are a set of four inch cubes which divide the 26 letters of the alphabet into geographic parts that may be assembled and stacked in any direction to create myriad shapes and letterforms.
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After I had adjusted the positions of the letterforms, I intervened by hand to draw an oval directly in the Demonstration graphic and move it behind the “c” to fill its counter.
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To get that, I made the letterforms very narrow, with thin strokes.
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With fonts, design opportunities depend greatly on the geometries of the letterforms and the particular sequences of characters.
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Many of the postings on this blog are far too technical for me, even as a great admirer of fonts and letterforms.
Hounding Baskerville 2009
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