Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the art of printing from types, woodcuts, or plates in high relief.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the act or art of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to typography or printing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective typographical

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or occurring or used in typography

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Examples

  • Also, running headers and footers, and certain typographic details, have been omitted from this edition.

    Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book 1893

  • So, will Harry Reid say that Matt’s unsuited for public office because he suffers from “Latin typographic skills”?

    Matthew Yglesias » GOP Senate Candidates Takes on Scourge of Imitation People 2010

  • If RGB colour is not something you're passionate about, you can achieve amazing results with a so-called typographic colour by playing with different type weights, sizes, and letter -, word -, line-spacing.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Unlike genetic markers, which reveal small "typographic" variations in the spelling of genes, epigenetic markers indicate places where entire genes have been silenced or activated.

    Beyond the Book of Life 2009

  • Anyone who wants a more "typographic" version, can send me an e-mail and I'll send them both the Greek version re-typeset and its Italian translation.

    Sappho in Greek! And did the Romans "invade" Britain? 2005

  • This typographic detective story manages to be a history of the New York subway, a survey of global transportation graphics and an authoritative over view of 20th-century design in action.

    When in Helvetica Michael Bierut 2011

  • Flickermood is experimental typographic cinema, imagine a DJ with a turntable and text that moves to the beat.

    Flickermood | clusterflock 2009

  • In Thinking With Type p. 164, Ellen Lupton issues this typographic call to action:

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • A new library in the UK has some awesome typographic tree sculptures.

    2009 March « Items of Interest 2009

  • She uses spam titles or subjects from her junk mail folder to illustrate her hand lettered typographic designs.

    January 2009 2009

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