'Typography' definitions:
Definition of 'typography'
(from WordNet)
noun
The craft of composing type and printing from it
noun
Art and technique of printing with movable type [syn: typography, composition]
Definition of 'Typography'
From: GCIDE
- Typography \Ty*pog"ra*phy\, n. [Type + -graphy: cf. F. typographie.]
- 1. The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'typography'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- albertype,
- book printing,
- chromotypography,
- chromotypy,
- chromoxylography,
- collotype,
- color printing,
- electronography,
- electrostatic printing,
- graphic arts,
- gravure,
- halftone engraving,
- history of printing,
- job printing,
- letterpress,
- letterpress photoengraving,
- line engraving,
- lithography,
- lithogravure,
- lithophotogravure,
- mimeograph,
- offset,
- offset lithography,
- onset,
- palaeotypography,
- photo-offset,
- photochemical process,
- photoengraving,
- photogelatin process,
- photographic reproduction,
- photography,
- photolithography,
- phototypography,
- phototypy,
- photozincography,
- planographic printing,
- planography,
- printing,
- printmaking,
- publication,
- publishing,
- relief printing,
- rotary photogravure,
- rotogravure,
- sheetwork,
- stencil,
- three-color printing,
- two-color printing,
- typolithography,
- wood-block printing,
- xerography,
- xeroprinting,
- xylotypography,
- zincography