typography

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I love the collages at the top and bottom, but I'm finding that the typography is a bit too serious for my content.

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  1. noun The art and technique of printing with movable type.
  2. noun The composition of printed material from movable type.
  3. noun The arrangement and appearance of printed matter.

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  • You shall have two hundred and fifty copies,—I am not quite sure you can have more,—bound, and entitled, and directed as you desire, at least according to the best ability of our printer as far as the typography is concerned, and we will speed the work as fast as we can; but as we have but a single copy of Fraser's Magazine —we do not get on rapidly. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • Moreso then any other specific typography, the words in the film were either a crude script of dubious penmanship or something akin to —  MetaFilter
  • I love the collages at the top and bottom, but I'm finding that the typography is a bit too serious for my content. —  eightface uberfeed
  • If you're new to typography, the different terms can seem a little daunting at first. —  doggdot.us
  • I'm no MS fan, but their typography is excellent, on the whole. —  jeffmilner.com
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  1. French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia : Greek tupos, impression + Latin -graphia, -graphy.

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  1. = French typographie = Spanish tipografía = Portuguese typographia = Italian tipografia = German typographie = Swedish Danish typografi, from Greek τύπος, impression, type, + -γραφία, from γράφειν, write.
 

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/taɪˈpɑgrəfi/
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