typography
pronunciation
How to pronounce typography in British English:
UK [taɪˈpɒgrəfi]
How to pronounce typography in American English:
US [taɪˈpɑgrəfi]
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- Noun:
- the craft of composing type and printing from it
- art and technique of printing with movable type
Word Origin
- typography (n.)
- "art of composing types and printing from them," 1640s, from French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia, from Greek typos (see type (n.)) + -grapheia "writing," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
Example
- 1. You can grab colors , textures and even typography inspiration from a photograph and create a nice coherent theme .
- 2. Dubbed skin , the moveable walls in the interactive science and economy museum have symbols , typography and patterns cut into them .
- 3. It was around this period that the grid system moved from the domain of art and into one of typography and commercial design .
- 4. Dropping out of his college course and attending calligraphy classes instead had , for example , given mr jobs an apparently useless love of typography .
- 5. I chose photography as an example for a classic communication design instrument , but the ideas are also applicable to typography , illustration , motion design , graphics , and the like .