typography

n. art of printing with type; appearance of printed materials; arrangement of typesetting

Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.
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Noun
1. the craft of composing type and printing from it
(hypernym) trade, craft
2. art and technique of printing with movable type
(synonym) composition
(hypernym) printing, printing process

(n.)
The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.
  

(n.)
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
  

Synonyms and related words:
albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, two-color printing, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography