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Definition: Typography |
TypographyNoun1. The craft of composing type and printing from it. 2. Art and technique of printing with movable type. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "typography" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Etymology: Typography \Ty*pog"ra*phy\, noun. [Type -graphy: compare to the French expression typographie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Arrangement of type characters into words, lines and paragraphs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Typography (performed by a typographer) is the art of arranging letters on a page to be printed, usually for a combination of aesthetic and functional goals.
While the term orthography usually refers to correct writing in general, typography includes:
The term typography has broadened to include arranging text on the computer screen. When an overall layout specification has to handle a range of actual content – whether on screen or not – the term more often used is information design.
- thoughtful selection and use of typefaces (fonts);
- correct use of emphasis;
- optional decoration such as initials;
- adhering to rules of typographical syntax, such as when to use a hyphen vs. a dash, or what glyphs to use for quotation marks, which varies greatly among different languages.
Note that type design is generally considered a separate activity from typography, although it can be considered a branch thereof.
Quotations
Typography is directing a message.
Günter Gerhard Lange, found on typolis.deOnly who knows the rules can break them when necessary.
found on typolis.deAnyone meaning to be an expert at types, because he could read it, is quite fine mistaken.
Jan Tschichold, found on typolis.deThe whole is more than the addition of its parts.
Laotse, found on typolis.deFor design, the unprinted area is more important than the printed.
Joachim Opfer, found on typolis.deGood typography explains the content, not the designer.
Kurt Weidemann, found on typolis.deIn all arts the believe in counting and measuring leeds to the greatest mistakes.
Paul Renner, found on typolis.deAlso the printed looks either good or bad, anyhow it always looks like somehow; and just this look marks its aesthetic value.
Paul Renner, found on typolis.de
Important typographers and type designers
- Otl Aicher
- John Baskerville
- Morris Fuller Benton
- Giambattista Bodoni
- Max Caflisch
- Adrian Frutiger
- Claude Garamond
- Eric Gill
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Rudolf Koch
- Günter Gerhard Lange
- Aldus Manutius
- Stanley Morison
- Herbert Post
- Paul Renner
- Erik Spiekermann
- Jan Tschichold
- Georg Trump
- Kurt Weidemann
- Hans Peter Willberg
- Hermann Zapf
Related articles
- Typefaces
- Typographic units
- Graphic design
- Desktop publishing
- Printing
- Printing press
- Orthography
- Quotation mark
- Serif
- Paragraph
- Ligature
- Word processor
- Kerning
- Tracking
- Leading
- Typesetting
- Computers and Typesetting
- Calligraphy
Resources
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst (often referred to simply as Bringhurst) is widely respected as the modern authority on typographic style. ISBN 0881791326. (excerpts)
Web-Links
- http://www.typographi.ca - a daily journal of typography
- www.typolis.de - Typography, Type and Design
- http://counterspace.motivo.com/
- http://www.typophile.com/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Typography."
Synonym: TypographySynonym: composition (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Printing | Typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals; (letters); brevier, bourgeois, pica; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Typography |
| English words defined with "typography": typographic, typographical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "typography": Didones ♦ Modern Face ♦ PRODUCTION MANAGER, ADVERTISING ♦ UN*X. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "typography": typographer. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Freight train typography 3" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Just some letters and numbers... i don't know why but i'm crazy for them :)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Typography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Typography" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.56% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (common) | 4.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "typography"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tipografi (printing), shtypshkrim (printing). (various references) | |
Arabic | مادة طباعية, طباعة (character, engraving, press, print), أسلوب الطباعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | книгопечатане (print, printing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 印刷术. (various references) | |
Czech | typografie, tiskařství (printing). (various references) | |
Danish | satsarbejde (composition, typesetting, type-setting), sats (batch, composition, round of directions, set of directions, typesetting, type-setting), sætning (sentence). (various references) | |
Dutch | zetsel (extract, infusion), gezet werk (composition, typesetting, type-setting). (various references) | |
Farsi | فن چاپ . (various references) | |
French | typographie, composition (typesetting), arrangement (typesetting, type-setting). (various references) | |
German | Drucktechnik. (various references) | |
Greek | τυπογραφία (printing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tipográfia, nyomdászat. (various references) | |
Italian | tipografia (press, printing office, printing works), composizione (composition, configuration, essay, make up, settlement, typesetting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 活版 (printing), タイアップ番組 (error which directly allows a run to score, four-in-hand, good hitting in which a run is scored, RBI, RBI hit, run-batted-in, run-batted-in hit, style, tidal, tie game, tie-up program, tight, tights, tile, time, time clock, time is up, time machine, time-card, timely, timeout, timer, times, time-sheet, time-shift, time-stamp, timing, tire, title, title background, title-region, type, typewriter, typhoon, typing, typist, tyre, video titler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっぱん (printing), タイポグラフィ . (various references) | |
Manx | clougraafeeaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ypographytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tipografia (print, printing office, printing-house, print-shop), composição (composing, composition, consistency, essay, extravaganza, make-up, opus, typesetting). (various references) | |
Romanian | tipografie (chapel, print shop, printing house, printing office), tipar (model, Mold, mould, paradigm, pattern, press, printing, shape), tipãrire (imprint, printing), prezentare graficã a unei cãrţi. (various references) | |
Russian | книгопечатание. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tipografija, slaganje (composition, concurrence, sequence, superposition, typesetting), štampanje (printing). (various references) | |
Spanish | tipografía (printing, typeface, typesetting). (various references) | |
Swedish | typografi. (various references) | |
Turkish | tipografya, matbaacılık, basımcılık. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | опорядження (onlay), друкарство. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuật in máy kiểu in, cách trình bày bản in. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Typography" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Typographia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "typography" (pronounced tupÄ"grufē) |
| 9 | t u p Ä" g r u f ē | topography. |
| 6 | -Ä" g r u f ē | astrophotography, autobiography, bibliography, biography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, crystallography, demography, geography, hagiography, historiography, iconography, lithography, mammography, oceanography, orthography, photography, phytogeography, polarography, pornography, radiography. |
| 5 | -g r u f ē | calligraphy, discography. |
| 4 | -r u f ē | apostrophe, atrophy, catastrophe, dystrophy. |
| 3 | -u f ē | philosophy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-o-p-p-r-t-y-y" | |
-1 letter: typograph. | |
-3 letters: atrophy. | |
-4 letters: ragtop, trophy. | |
-5 letters: aport, argot, atopy, gappy, garth, gator, graph, grapy, groat, happy, harpy, hoagy, hoary, hoppy, pargo, party, payor, porgy, rhyta, thorp, torah, yappy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-o-p-p-r-t-y-y" | |
+2 letters: cryptography. | |
+4 letters: phytogeography. | |
+5 letters: plethysmography, typographically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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