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Art and technique of printing with movable type
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typography
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the craft of composing type and printing from it art and technique of printing with movable type [syn: composition ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even a discussion about typography or paragraph spacing would be clouded with danger and twisted by subtle probings or innuendoes. ▪ Mr McLean has a vast knowledge of typography and book design, knowledge which he is happy to ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible , readable , and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces , point sizes , line lengths , line-spacing ( leading ), and letter-spacing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting. 2 The practice or process of printing with type. 3 The appearance and style of typeset matter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typography \Ty*pog"ra*phy\, n. [Type + -graphy: cf. F. typographie.] The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 ).
Usage examples of typography.
Aldus would not have minded so much the filching of the text, but when the unscrupulous printers ventured to copy his types and his original style of typography, and sold their counterfeit copies as the product of the Aldine Press, his indignation knew no bounds.
See, I contract for the whole thing, and then pay somebody else to do the presswork and binding and just do the typography myself.