Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who letters; one who marks or cuts the letters of an inscription, a title, or the like: as, a book-letterer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)
  • noun A particular profession in the production of comics, an artist specializing in neatly writing written material such as dialogue.
  • noun A device for printing letters of text.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a painter of letters

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Examples

  • The letters are a joy to see on the page, and his style fits in well with the series 'original and long term letterer, Chris Eliopoulos, and one-time replacement John Workman.

    Comic Book Resources 2009

  • Turns out, this really was a "lost Conan adventure", one that he did a long time ago when he worked as a letterer on Finnish Conan comics ... he's done a bunch more like this, but they were all misplaced, and when this one turned up a few months ago, he posted it on the web!

    Conan and the Penguin People! Cromsblood 2009

  • As letterer Todd Klein explained on his blog: "Neil and the DC staffers involved felt the lettering on these issues reproduced so badly when enlarged it was worth having me redo it."

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Through Laura Koenig's Bib-Laura-graphy (easier to say than it looks), I found letterer Nate Peikos's helpful “Comics Grammar & Tradition” article at Blambot.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The original Smith and Tinker were, of course, the inventors of Tik-Tok, the clockwork man in Ozma of Oz. And master comics letterer Todd Klein, whom I've quoted about the Robin logo, reviews the latest issue of The Baum Bugle.

    Spotting Oz Fans All Over 2009

  • And the 1955 logo comes full circle: It was a DC artist/letterer -- Ira Schapp, father of the classic "Action Comics" logo -- who reportedly also designed the CCA seal.

    QUICK POST: Only 56 years later, the CCA seal of censorship is dead Michael Cavna 2011

  • Rosen, Joe (December 25, 1920 – October 12, 2009) Comic-book letterer The Comics Reporter obit; Todd Klein tribute

    2009 – Deaths P-R « The Graveyard 2010

  • Neither fellow is quite a letterer yet, so I'll transcribe the words as well.

    Aeroman vs. Bank Robber 15 2009

  • But you're not done yet: there's one more person you need to produce your graphic novel: a letterer.

    Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Those companies 'comic books are usually produced by a team: scripter, penciller, inker, letterer, colorist, and sometimes others.

    Comics Publishers Don’t Make It Easy for Cataloguers 2009

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