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Definition of "typography" []

  • The art and technique of printing with movable type. (noun)
  • The composition of printed material from movable type. (noun)
  • The arrangement and appearance of printed matter. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "typography" in a sentence
  • "I should add that I just stuck the title typography in there really quickly, and I used the same font on all of them so that hopefully the voting would be based on the images, not the graphic type fonts and colors."
  • "Argh, well, nobody honest involved in typography for the last 50 years would agree with that, David in Nashville."
  • "Beloved by Scrabble fans, em (/εm/) can mean the letter M or a unit of measurement in typography – hence em dash (one of which appeared just there, before hence)."