The phrase "as lettering" is not commonly used in written English and may not be clear in meaning.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing typography or design, but it would require additional context for clarity.
Example: "The sign was beautifully crafted, with intricate designs as lettering that caught everyone's attention."
Alternatives: "in the form of text" or "as text design".
Any form of lettering that draws a particular attention to itself as lettering - the beautiful fonts of the Renaissance, the chunkiest sans serif scripts - may draw such attention to a sentence, a phrase, or a word, that it becomes an object of special aesthetic interest, and therefore something like a poem.
At the University of Chicago, a Chaucer textual laboratory was organized in Wieboldt Hall where a team of graduate students analyzed photostatic copies of Chaucer manuscripts for details such as lettering styles, paper marking, and ink in order to establish the manuscripts' provenance.
They appear either as lettering seemingly sewn into the edges of the figures' clothes (mostly hidden in the folds), or directly on the surface of the central inner panel.
When it's something as simple as lettering, I could have tried to steer her into a prettier font maybe, or a different location (obviously), but she was already set on this "letterman" font, "like the one on the jacket".
Use small paintbrushes from a hobby or craft shop and canned car paint to do delicate or detailed work, such as lettering or a logo.
Elsa Masi, a retired chemist who leads a local cultural organization, said the letters M and B were "exactly the same" as in lettering above a crucifix attributed to Michelangelo in the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence.
He was an "all-around man," writing as well as drawing, even lettering and sometimes coloring his own material.
As for lettering, Johnston designed his superb sans-serif capitals for Pick between 1913 and 1916.
In addition to doing what it could to bring aid and comfort, food and shelter, clothes and lettering, to as many "underprivileged" children in the city as it could, the Society also did everything it could to do what at the time seemed best for abandoned children in New York: get them out of New York.
In fact the only hint of sobriety was in the bags, as sleek in their black quilting with gold logo lettering as the clothes were frivolous.
Some of the type examples here are as well executed as any skilled hand lettering.
