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Lettering is the art of drawing letters rather than writing them, and is therefore distinct from handwriting, calligraphy, and typography.


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Although lettering is unlike typography in that no characters are fixed, most lettering artists employ a uniform construction to their letterforms. With the use of OpenType features such as alternate characters, typography can also sometimes resemble lettering. However, “true” lettering is created for a specific use case; i.e., a drawing of a particular word or phrase.