喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From letter, from Latin littera 'letter of the alphabet'.

letter（字母）加 -ing；源自拉丁文 littera「字母」。

Wiktionary

Stand in front of an old shop sign. You can read what it says — but you can also look at it the other way, and see only shapes: how thick the strokes are, how the gold catches the light, how evenly the words are spaced. That second way of looking is what this word is for. Lettering is words treated as things that were made, not as things that were said. From there the word splits in the simplest possible way: the shapes on the sign, and the skill of the hand that made them.

站在一塊老招牌前面。你看得懂它寫什麼，但你也可以換一種看法，只看形狀：筆畫多粗、金色怎麼反光、字距排得多整齊。這個字要的就是第二種看法。可以想成 lettering 把字當成「被做出來的東西」，而不是「被說出來的話」。從這裡它分成最單純的兩邊：招牌上那些形狀，以及做出這些形狀的那雙手的功夫。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

letterings

意思相近

typecalligraphyscriptsignwritingtext

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

letteringnoun/ˈlɛ.tə.ɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    Written text, especially when printed.

    • The lettering on the sign made it clear that intruders were unwelcome.
    • On a recent afternoon a work crew and crane were affixing the tall lettering to the side of the team’s new stadium, just off the autobahn in Sinsheim, a few miles from Hoffenheim.
  • 2

    Designed text.

    • The lettering on the sign was very tidy.
  • 3

    comicsliteraturemediaThe inking of text onto comic pages during production.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。