typography

1. 1.

   the craft of composing type and printing from it

   Broadertrade
2. 2.

   art and technique of printing with movable type

   Synonymscomposition

   Broaderprinting

Other forms of typography

plural

typographies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about typography

What does typography mean?

typography means "the craft of composing type and printing from it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in typography?

typography has 4 syllables: ty-po-gra-phy. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /təˈpɑɡɹəfi/.

What is another word for typography?

Close synonyms include composition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is typography a common word?

typography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with typography?

1 word rhymes with typography. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.