typography

English

Etymology

From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos, “certified copy”) + -ίᾱ (-íā). By surface analysis, type +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

typography (usually uncountable, plural typographies)

1. The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
2. The practice or process of printing with type.
3. The appearance and style of typeset matter.

Derived terms

• kinetic typography
• typographer
• typographic
• typographical

 

Related terms

• typing
• typographia
• typology

 

Translations

art and technique

• Albanian: tipografia f
• Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ar) m (ṭibāʕa), طِبَاعَة الْحَرْفِ m (ṭibāʕa(t) al-ḥarfi)
• Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʻyun)
• Basque: tipografia
• Belarusian: тыпаграфіка f (typahrafika)
• Bulgarian: типография f (tipografija)
• Catalan: tipografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字體排印學 / 字体排印学 (zìtǐpáiyìnxué)

• Czech: typografie (cs) f
• Danish: typografi c
• Dutch: typografie (nl)
• Esperanto: tipografio
• Estonian: tüpograafia
• Finnish: typografia (fi)
• French: typographie (fr) f
• Galician: tipografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ტიპოგრაფია (ṭiṗograpia)
• German: Typographie (de) f
• Greek: τυπογραφία (el) f (typografía)
• Hebrew: טיפוגרפיה f (tipográfia)
• Hindi: अक्षर कला (akṣar kalā)
• Hungarian: tipográfia (hu)
• Icelandic: leturfræði f, týpógrafía f
• Indonesian: tipografi (id)
• Irish: clóghrafaíocht f
• Italian: tipografia (it) f
• Japanese: タイポグラフィ (taipogurafi), タイポグラフィー (taipogurafī)
• Korean: 타이포그래피 (taipogeuraepi), 타이포그라피 (taipogeurapi)
• Latvian: tipogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: tipografija f
• Macedonian: типографија f (tipografija)
• Malay: tipografi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: typografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: typografi m

• Ottoman Turkish: باصمه (basma)
• Persian: تایپوگرافی (tipografî)
• Polish: typografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: tipografia (pt) f
• Romanian: tipografie (ro), tipar (ro)
• Russian: книгопеча́тание (ru) n (knigopečátanije), типогра́фика (ru) f (tipográfika)
• Scottish Gaelic: clò-ghrafachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: типогра̀фија f

  Roman: tipogràfija (sh) f

• Slovak: typografia f
• Slovene: tipografija f
• Spanish: tipografía (es) f
• Swedish: typografi (sv) c
• Thai: การพิมพ์ (th) (gaan-pim)
• Turkish: tipografi (tr)
• Ukrainian: типографія f (typohrafija)
• Vietnamese: thuật in máy
• Yiddish: טיפּאָגראַפֿיע f (tipografye)

See also

• typesetting

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of typography