typography

English

Etymology

From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos) + γραφία (graphía, “mark, impression, image”), variant of γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”).type +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/
(US) IPA^(key): /taɪˈpɑːɡɹəfi/

Noun

typography (usually uncountable, plural typographies)

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.

Derived terms

typographer
typographic
typographical

Related terms

typographia

Translations

art and technique

Albanian: tipografia f
Arabic: طِبَاعَة‎ (ar) m (ṭibāʿa), طِبَاعَة الْحَرْفِ‎ m (ṭibāʿa(t) al-ḥarfi)
Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʿyun)
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
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
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)