Letterforms

Definition

Design, or shapes of letters or symbols, either as written by hand or as represented in a particular type font

Origin

A letterform, letter-form or letter form is a term used especially in typography, paleography, calligraphy, and epigraphy to mean a letter's shape. A letterform is a type of glyph, which is a specific, concrete way of writing an abstract character or grapheme. [1]