看到的那些字
這一組是成品：已經在表面上、你看得到的那些字。
noun · B2
The letters and words written, drawn or printed on something, thought of as how they look — their style, size and colour — rather than what they say.
字樣；字體的樣子
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。Two branches
做出這些字的功夫
把注意力從招牌移到寫招牌的那個人身上，同一個字就從成品變成手藝。
noun · B2
The art or skill of drawing and writing letters by hand so that they look good.
字體設計；手寫字的工藝
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。