lettering has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

Synonyms

inscription

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' .

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

Over the door was a board with large , inept lettering :

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