Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The development or design of the shape of an alphabet letter.
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- noun The
shape of an individualletter - noun The
design anddevelopment of such shapes
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, finally, the alleged goals of diversity and equality are great in letterform, but until they are applied in actual practice, are worth no more than the paper on which they’re written.
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And, finally, the alleged goals of diversity and equality are great in letterform, but until they are applied in actual practice, are worth no more than the paper on which they’re written.
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And, finally, the alleged goals of diversity and equality are great in letterform, but until they are applied in actual practice, are worth no more than the paper on which they’re written.
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The typeface he was working on was instantly recognisable, even to those with no interest in letterform.
The history of the Times New Roman typeface The Nag 2009
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I wrote a short function that rasterizes a representative 48-point character in a font; turns the result into an image via Rasterize; applies image processing functions to turn the image into just black and white pixels (Binarize), eliminate white space around the letterform (ImageCrop), and count the resulting numbers of black and white pixels (ImageLevels); and then returns the fraction of black pixels.
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It ended up as a polished interface for designing letterform sequences, some of whose members are reversed out of the others.
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Sam Winston's portfolio of word and letterform art
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When hibernating, it sits still waiting to be reactivated into a seeking state by either a touch/collision from an avatar or collision with a seeking letterform.
The myth of Babel comes alive: Babelswarm Bettina Tizzy 2008
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When hibernating, it sits still waiting to be reactivated into a seeking state by either a touch/collision from an avatar or collision with a seeking letterform.
Archive 2008-04-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Type+Code: processing for designers formal exploration of letterform transformations in processing.
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