Home › Words › M › microtypographymicrotypographymicrotypography means typography on a word or character level.EtymologyFrom micro- + typography.nounTypography on a word or character level.e.g.“In the area of the typography, or to be more precise the microtypography – the details of how the signs and spaces relate – there was a chance to create something new.” — 2005 April 28, Mark Thomson, “Microtypography, Designing the new Collins dictionaries”, in Typotheque, retrieved 26 Nov 2016:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).