typography means the art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
typography is pronounced /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/.
Why “typography” is a great word
TYPOGRAPHY — [Noun] The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and visually appealing. From French typographie, from Medieval Latin typographia, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, "impression, model, type") + -γραφία (-graphía, "writing, recording"). First attested in English in the 1640s. Unlike calligraphy, which celebrates the fluid singularity of the hand, or typesetting, which denotes the technical act of assembly, typography is the architecture of the page. It is the authoritative heft of a serif in a broadsheet, the clean anonymity of a sans-serif on a terminal screen, and the whispering elegance of italics in a line of verse—the discipline that clothes abstract thought in a physical form meant to be held as much as read.
noun
- The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
- The practice or process of printing with type.
- The appearance and style of typeset matter.