Possible Clues:

• Sort of letters to sort by appearance?
• Printing surface of any character
• Courier, maybe, is the sort to deal with
• Style of printing surface
• Set of characters female encountered in would-be dominant church
• Designed range of printed lettering
• Distinguishing character of font
• Times Roman, for one
• Set of characters concealing truth, mainly, in Melville novel
• The sort to confront characters in print