What does "signwriting" mean?

Any form of clear lettering designed to be used on signs.

Signwriting

name, noun

name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
Any form of clear lettering designed to be used on signs. uncountable
"Dieter walked along a broad corridor. Each door was clearly labeled in neat German signwriting, but Dieter looked inside anyway."
2
The art or process of writing signs. uncountable
"Much modern signwriting is also done very cheaply, in the fastest possible way, and creativity is constrained by this commercial pressure as well."

Proper Noun

1
A writing system used to depict sign languages.
"Formal SignWriting is one particular computerized design for Sutton SignWriting that envisions a sign as a two part word."

"Dieter walked along a broad corridor. Each door was clearly labeled in neat German signwriting, but Dieter looked inside anyway."

From sign + writing.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.