Historically, transcriptions in SL have largely focused on relaying the meaning of a sign rather than the sign's physical shape [1,2]. Two main graphical systems of annotation —SignWriting [3] and HamNoSys [4]— are able to annotate the form of the parameters: the first one is not designed to annotate [5]; the second, in most cases, is coupled to a database tool for integrating SL corpus, named iLex [6]. Therefore, except for few corpora [7,8], the parameters are only partially annotated. One of the reasons is the time needed to do so, even if this has not been documented in literature. Another challenge in the transcription of signs is the integration of generic information (features) into the specificities of each parameter of signs. At a phonological level [9,10], the features extracted for handshapes generate multi-million possibilities. Some rules to reduce these potential combinations have been established [11,12], and others might still be found. The aim of this communication is to present Typannot [13,14], a type font for handshapes created to transcribe all the existing SL (142 SL for Ethnologue [15]). This glyphic type font is readable, writable, searchable.It works upon a modular system; the separate features can be assembled into glyphs that enable the representation of every handshape.The features are all searchable through a set of generic (symbolic) glyphs. Those glyphs can be visualized by the annotator at any time thanks to the use of ligatures (Opentype format [16]), and are therefore transparent. At present, this font —freely downloadable on every operating system— can be used with ELAN [17] to transcribe directly by using a virtual keyboard (MacOS) or, for some SL, by using a dedicated template. Apart from the keyboard and templates for ELAN, a third annotation device has been developed. It works with a motion capture (MoCap) device (based on Leap Motion [18]) by which the annotator can transcribe a corpus by directly using his own hand (real-time controlled). We are in the process of measuring the annotation time per minute of corpus for the different levels and devices: with generic glyphs, with specific glyphs and with MoCap. The tendency seems to favour of the use of the MoCap device. Finally, we will present some preliminary results of the transcription made with the so-called Typannot Typefont, at several levels of annotation: from the selection of the fingers, the shapes and the bending angles of the fingers in the palm, their lateral distance to the final glyph of each handshape through the combination shape+angle.   Bibliography: [1] Johnston, T. (2008). Corpus linguistics and signed languages: no lemmata, no corpus. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (p. 82-88). O. Crasborn, E. Efthimiou, T.s Hanke, E. D. 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