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2. Technical lettering - Wikipedia

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   A technical lettering stencil. Technical lettering is the process of forming letters, numerals, and other characters in technical drawing. It is used to describe, or provide detailed specifications for, an object. With the goals of legibility and uniformity, styles are standardized and lettering ability has little relationship to normal writing ...

3. Typewriter - Wikipedia

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   The Writing Ball was a template for inventor Frank Haven Hall to create a derivative that would produce letter prints cheaper and faster. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Malling-Hansen developed his typewriter further through the 1870s and 1880s and made many improvements, but the writing head remained the same.

4. Letter (paper size) - Wikipedia

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   The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter-size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The American Forest & Paper Association says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual papermaking, the 11-inch length of the standard paper being about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms". [2]

5. DIN 1451 - Wikipedia

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   DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications. [1]It was defined by the German standards body DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung, 'German Institute for Standardisation', pronounced like the English word din) in the standard sheet DIN 1451-Schriften ('typefaces') in 1931. [2]

6. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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   Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay: Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] Ꟍ ꟍ S with diagonal stroke: Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [22] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S: Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ ƨ: Reversed S (=Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to ...

7. List of Latin-script alphabets - Wikipedia

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   The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.