typography

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ty=pog=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

typography, n. [Type + -graphy: cf. F. typographie.].

•  The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

typography, n.
1 printing as an art.
2 the style and appearance of printed matter.

Derivative

typographic adj. typographical adj. typographically adv.

Etymology

F typographie or mod.L typographia (as TYPE, -GRAPHY)

THESAURUS

typography

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

ROGET THESAURUS

typography

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.