typography

Typography is the process of using type to print onto a page, or the general look of letters and words on a page.

(noun)

An example of typography is using a letter press to make wedding invitations by hand.
An example of typography is the study of the fonts used and their placement in a concert poster.

See typography in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: Fr typographie < ML typographia: see typo- & -graphy

See typography in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. ty·pog·ra·phies

a. The art and technique of printing with movable type.
b. The composition of printed material from movable type.
The arrangement and appearance of printed matter.

Origin:

Origin: French typographie

Origin: , from Medieval Latin typographia

Origin: : Greek tupos, impression

Origin: + Latin -graphia, -graphy

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