Definition of "letterform" [letterform]

• The development or design of the shape of an alphabet letter. (noun)

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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."
• "The typeface he was working on was instantly recognisable, even to those with no interest in letterform."
• "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."