Letterforms

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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, palaeography, 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]]