History Main / AnthropomorphicTypography

May form part of an AlphabetSong. Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject.

* WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}} by Mike Salcedo uses this trope as its main premise by having the only characters be all of the letters of the alphabet who can only say their own names.

* WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}} by Mike Salcedo uses this trope as its main premise.

* [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings Tired of the fan pressure for a 'Sans fight']], NCH Productions gives us an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjTkFkZo2g based Sans fight animation]]... [[TrollingCreator starring fonts]]. As in, the fonts Comic Sans and Papyrus versus the more traditional fonts like Cooper, Tahoma, and Times New Roman, all led by Arial. It's all quite silly but still well done.

* This is the main premise behind WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}} by Mike Salcedo.

** Taken UpToEleven with the [[https://jimmy-and-the-pulsating-mass.fandom.com/wiki/Balanced_Equation Balanced Equation]] enemies, a pair of chemical equations [[ShownTheirWork which are indeed balanced]].

Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject.

-->'''?:''' Do it, Lisa! You'll be greater than or equal to boys!\\

* The kid's book ''Literature/ChickaChickaBoomBoom'' is about a bunch of sentient letters racing each other up a coconut tree, starting with "A", "B", and "C".

* ''Series/BetweenTheLions'' has a segment featuring the Silent E, a character with a humanistic body, but with the letter e in place of it's head. Other vowels also feature in the segment, each also with human bodies and letters for heads. It can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKWmkDv1jFk

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* Franchise/{{Pokemon}}: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unown Unown]] is a symbol-like Pokémon that can have the appearance of one of twenty-eight possible shape variations which parallel the English alphabet, the question mark and the exclamation mark.

** ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'': Four, X and Two as [[GameShowHost Game Show Hosts]] in seasons 4 and 5 while numbers Five through Nine appear in non-canon shorts separate from the main show.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a strip featuring a an anthropomorphic "h" arguing with her husband (an "R") and saying to him, "Yes! I've been seeing all the vowels - a, e, i, o, u... Oh, and sometimes y."

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E5GetSchwifty Get Schwifty]]", Music/IceT is revealed to be an alien from the planet Alphabetrium, whose inhabitants are shaped like letters and embody various simple substances (H2O, magnesium, etc.), and are currently at war with a species who are shaped like numbers.

* ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'': Brought to you by the incredible singing Letter Y.

* The image above is from ''WesternAnimation/LeapFrog'', a show that focuses on teaching kids their letters and numbers via this trope. The first episode, ''Letter Factory'', involves the protagonist, Tad, learning his alphabet at a factory that produces anthropomorphic letters. The next couple of episodes focus on using said letters to make words, before shifting to numbers in ''Math Circus'', where anthropomorphic numbers perform circus acts of adding and subtracting. The series goes through a few reboots, from using tad and Lily in a different style of episodes teaching the same concept, then focusing on Scout and his friends going through the same concepts, and finally a CGI cartoon focusing on Tad, Leap, and Lily learning the same concepts.

* The children's show ''WesternAnimation/WordWorld'' has animals that are made of letters.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/FromAToZZZZ", Ralph Philips is asked to solve a math problem on the chalkboard. Looking at the high pile of numbers, he imagines them laughing at him. He gets even by knocking them over, and a five fights him with a four as a sword. Ralph stabs him to death with the line at the bottom of the equation, and that sets the other numbers chasing after him. He fights them off by using the letters on top of the chalkboard as weapons - a D and Y as a bow and arrow, a J as a rifle with its dot and the I dot as bullets.

* Mediaeval illuminated manuscripts were characterised by the ''historiated initial'', where the very first letter of each chapter, and to a lesser extent the initial letter of each suceeding paragraph, was made far larger and more ornate than anything that followed. Known today as the ''drop cap'', the historiated inital might well emerge from a picture often featuring human or animal forms, or else be a stylised human or animal figure. The drop cap that emerged after the introduction of printing maintained the relative size of the historiated initial, but only very rarely went beyond an elaborate version of the letter to feature anthropomorphised forms.

* ObjectShows have a penchant for including these guys in their cast along with being [[ADogNamedDog appropriately name]]. Notable anthropomorphic letters, numbers and such include:

* Downplayed in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E10CultureShockFUN F.U.N.]]". During the F.U.N. Song, SpongeBob forms himself into an "N".

--> Q: Why was 6 afraid of 7?
--> A: Because 7 8[[note]]ate[[/note]] 9

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** ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle'' - One number (Nine) and two mathematical symbols (Alef and Nabla, coincidentally both cousins)
** ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' - Four, X and Two as [[GameShowHost Game Show Hosts]] in seasons 4 and 5 while numbers Five through Nine appear in non-canon shorts separate from the main show.
** ''WebAnimation/ContestForMillionsOfThousands'' - Not English but Russian alphabet letters Kratcy (Й) and Yoshka (Ë)
** ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'' - Letters 'A' through 'D' for its first reboot.

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-->'''?:''' Do it, Lisa! You'll be greater than or equal to boys!
-->'''8:''' Even though you're only eight, your possibilities are infinite. ''(turns to resemble an infinity symbol)''
-->'''27:''' [[ShapedLikeItself Twenty-seven!]]

** ''WebAnimation/ContestForMillionsOfThousands'' - Not English but Russian alphabet letters Kratcy (?) and Yoshka (Ë)