lettering

iStock lists 7,053,996 illustrations for “lettering” as of 2026-09-03. The other tracked catalogues read 3,906,838 on Adobe Stock and 133,590 on Shutterstock. That is a 53× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on iStock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is within the most heavily stocked quarter of the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading, which begins at 420,000.

Adobe Stock flags 76% of its 3,906,838 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That sits above the 76% median across the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-23, Google Trends put “lettering” at 50% of its own 12-month peak — mid-range for its own year. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “design”, “alphabet”, “font”, “abc”, “background”, “art”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the typography category.