Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of composing types and printing from them.
- noun In a restricted use, type-work; the branch of printing connected with composition; the preparation of matter in type for use in printing.
- noun The general character or appearance of printed matter.
- noun Emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
- noun The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or practice of
setting and arrangingtype ;typesetting . - noun The practice or process of
printing with type. - noun The appearance and style of
typeset matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the craft of composing type and printing from it
- noun art and technique of printing with movable type
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
More About the New Book James Gurney 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-01-01 James Gurney 2010
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After years working in typography, I felt experienced enough to ponder the issue of justified vs. flush left — one of the deeper questions.
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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).
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Stephen Lathrop: After years working in typography, I felt experienced enough to ponder the issue of justified vs. flush left — one of the deeper questions.
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Either the typography is fabulous and the layout is lousy, or the sidebar is beautifully designed but the rest of it uses terrible colors.
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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).
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Sure, the layout and typography is simple, but the stark, complicated image immediately captured my imagination.
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Argh, well, nobody honest involved in typography for the last 50 years would agree with that, David in Nashville.
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Either the typography is fabulous and the layout is lousy, or the sidebar is beautifully designed but the rest of it uses terrible colors.
skipvia commented on the word typography
This YouTube video is a must for typography nerds. I know you're out there. Uselessness?...
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word typography
Yes! I've heard great things about this one but didn't know it was available free online. Thanks for the link, I'm downloading it now to watch after work. :-)
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word typography
Great! Thanks, s!
January 25, 2008
mollusque commented on the word typography
Also for the typography nerd, the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. It has a vast collection of printing materials from the 1500s to 1800s, including the only known complete original set of Garamond dies.
January 25, 2008
uselessness commented on the word typography
So I finally just watched Helvetica, and it was great. I laughed, I cried... who would have thought a movie about a font could be so enjoyable? And now I'm so inspired I just want to design something!
January 26, 2008
john commented on the word typography
I enjoyed Helvetica. The interviews were great, but I have to say, I wanted more. More history, I think, to put things in context.
January 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word typography
Loving that website mollusque cites here, too. :-)
January 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word typography
Compare tie-pography.
August 24, 2009
bilby commented on the word typography
Aerial map typography.
August 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word typography
virtual typography musem. Lots of typefaces to peruse.
February 3, 2010
Telofy commented on the word typography
“The principles of typography as I understand them are not a set of dead conventions but the tribal customs of the magic forest, where ancient voices speak from all directions and new ones move to unremembered forms.”
—Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
April 30, 2010