lettering
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The result was the firm’s new corporate branding, a sleek, cobalt-hued identity revealed last week with lettering inspired by ancient legal slabs and photographic effects inspired by rocket launches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
So he spent hours scouring the internet for a replacement strip and identical lettering which, in the end, he had to iron on by hand.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“DF-15A” was printed in bold, black lettering on its side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The gold lettering reads, “Gracias Dios por este logro — Thank you, God, for this accomplishment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Middlefield, in blue lettering, is written downward on the outside of the pants.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Chinese letterings dance gayly on the yellow packages.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
They would rejoice to devote a leisure hour to pensive letterings in a pleasure-garden, and on an occasional holiday would gladly pursue even their severest studies, book in hand, amidst verdant bowers.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
Gilt letterings are an indication of ignorance, and so are brightly colored engraving or highly tinted paper.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Lillian Eichler
It was an outline map of England, apparently sketched by Meynell himself, as the notes and letterings were in his handwriting.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet; but the gray lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights, together with incised letterings and shoe-patterns cut by idlers thereon.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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