Note 100 — Chapter I · THE ENGLISH TYPE BODIES AND FACES.

The suggestion that Lettres de Forme may have meant merely letters commonly used in print (adopting the early printers’ use of the word forma as type), appears to be somewhat far-fetched. The term, though apparently distinctly typographical, was used both by Tory and Ycair to denote a class of letter which the former denominated Canon, or cut according to rule, as opposed to the more fanciful lettres bâtardes.