typography

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Etymology

From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos, “certified copy”) + -ίᾱ (-íā). By surface analysis, type +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

typography (usually uncountable, plural typographies)

1. The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
2. The practice or process of printing with type.
3. The appearance and style of typeset matter.

Derived terms

• kinetic typography
• typographer
• typographic
• typographical

 

Related terms

• typing
• typographia
• typology

 

Translations

art and technique

Albanian: tipografia f Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ar) m (ṭibāʕa), طِبَاعَة الْحَرْفِ m (ṭibāʕa(t) al-ḥarfi) Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʻyun) Basque: tipografia Belarusian: тыпаграфіка f (typahrafika) Bulgarian: типография f (tipografija) Catalan: tipografia f Chinese: Mandarin: 字體排印學 / 字体排印学 (zìtǐpáiyìnxué) Czech: typografie (cs) f Danish: typografi c Dutch: typografie (nl) Esperanto: tipografio Estonian: tüpograafia Finnish: typografia (fi) French: typographie (fr) f Galician: tipografía (gl) f Georgian: ტიპოგრაფია (ṭiṗograpia) German: Typographie (de) f Greek: τυπογραφία (el) f (typografía) Hebrew: טיפוגרפיה f (tipográfia) Hindi: अक्षर कला (akṣar kalā) Hungarian: tipográfia (hu) Icelandic: leturfræði f, týpógrafía f Indonesian: tipografi (id) Irish: clóghrafaíocht f Italian: tipografia (it) f Japanese: タイポグラフィ (taipogurafi), タイポグラフィー (taipogurafī) Korean: 타이포그래피 (taipogeuraepi), 타이포그라피 (taipogeurapi) Latvian: tipogrāfija f Lithuanian: tipografija f Macedonian: типографија f (tipografija) Malay: tipografi Norwegian: Bokmål: typografi (no) m Nynorsk: typografi m Ottoman Turkish: باصمه (basma) Persian: تایپوگرافی (tipografî) Polish: typografia (pl) f Portuguese: tipografia (pt) f Romanian: tipografie (ro), tipar (ro) Russian: книгопеча́тание (ru) n (knigopečátanije), типогра́фика (ru) f (tipográfika) Scottish Gaelic: clò-ghrafachd f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: типогра̀фија f Roman: tipogràfija (sh) f Slovak: typografia f Slovene: tipografija f Spanish: tipografía (es) f Swedish: typografi (sv) c Thai: การพิมพ์ (th) (gaan-pim) Turkish: tipografi (tr) Ukrainian: типографія f (typohrafija) Vietnamese: thuật in máy Yiddish: טיפּאָגראַפֿיע f (tipografye)

See also

• typesetting

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of typography