lettering
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In 2024, the firm shortened its identity to just “Freshfields,” dropped the angelic emblem in external communications and began using block lettering more synonymous with online startups and streetwear brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The sign has gone, though the shape of the lettering can still be made out; the windows are blacked out and the doors boarded up.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
New lettering was installed the next day on the front portico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Accessorizing the lock box was a button with bold white lettering screaming at me to “PUSH FOR ASSISTANCE.”
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Against a corner there was a stack of burlap sacks with fancy black lettering: POTATOES.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
He found himself occupying the center of an enormous mandarin rug, with letterings and grotesque designs in rich blood-reds, and blues and yellows and browns.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
The elaborate designs are stamped upon binder's English linen cloth, with side and back titles in large letterings.
From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Plain script, Old English or Roman are the only letterings used.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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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