Typography Definition

tī-pŏgrə-fē
typographies
noun
typographies
The art or process of printing from type.
Webster's New World
The art or process of setting and arranging type for printing.
Webster's New World
The arrangement, style, or general appearance of typeset matter.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
typography
Plural:
typographies

Origin of Typography

  • French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia Greek tupos impression Latin -graphia -graphy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French typographie.

    From Wiktionary

Typography Sentence Examples

  • Before the invention of typography, pages of books, or anything of a broadside nature, were printed from woodcuts, i.e.

  • Beginning scrapbookers often overlook the importance of typography, but creative font choices can easily add pizzazz to a simple layout.

  • I enjoyed designing the banner to reflect his use of tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography.

  • In some ways HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the heir to the finer arts of calligraphy, illumination, typesetting, and later layout and typography.

  • The "markup" part comes from the art of typography, where magazine and book editors would "mark up" copy so that the typesetters would know what parts to make BOLD or italic or the like.

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Words Starting With

TTYTYP

Words Ending With

YHYPHY

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