The principle difference between lettering and typography is that typography is based on fonts, which are static letterforms, and letter shapes formed by lettering are fluid and malleable.
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Typography
//taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi//
Synonyms for "typography" (56 found)
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60 translations across 52 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- tipografia noun (art and technique)
Arabic
2 entries- طِبَاعَة noun (art and technique)
- طِبَاعَة الْحَرْفِ noun (art and technique)
Armenian
1 entries- տպագրություն noun (art and technique)
Basque
1 entries- tipografia noun (art and technique)
Belarusian
1 entries- тыпаграфіка noun (art and technique)
Bulgarian
1 entries- типография noun (art and technique)
Catalan
1 entries- tipografia noun (art and technique)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 字體排印學 /字体排印学 noun (art and technique)
Czech
1 entries- typografie noun (art and technique)
Danish
1 entries- typografi noun (art and technique)
Dutch
1 entries- typografie noun (art and technique)
Esperanto
1 entries- tipografio noun (art and technique)
Estonian
1 entries- tüpograafia noun (art and technique)
Finnish
1 entries- typografia noun (art and technique)
French
1 entries- typographie noun (art and technique)
Galician
1 entries- tipografía noun (art and technique)
Georgian
1 entries- ტიპოგრაფია noun (art and technique)
German
1 entries- Typographie noun (art and technique)
Greek
1 entries- τυπογραφία noun (art and technique)
Hebrew
2 entries- טיפוגרפיה noun (art and technique)
- טיפוגרפיקה noun (art and technique)
Hindi
1 entries- अक्षर कला noun (art and technique)
Hungarian
1 entries- tipográfia noun (art and technique)
Icelandic
2 entries- leturfræði noun (art and technique)
- týpógrafía noun (art and technique)
Indonesian
1 entries- tipografi noun (art and technique)
Irish
1 entries- clóghrafaíocht noun (art and technique)
Italian
1 entries- tipografia noun (art and technique)
Japanese
2 entries- タイポグラフィ noun (art and technique)
- タイポグラフィー noun (art and technique)
Korean
2 entries- 타이포그라피 noun (art and technique)
- 타이포그래피 noun (art and technique)
Latvian
1 entries- tipogrāfija noun (art and technique)
Lithuanian
1 entries- tipografija noun (art and technique)
Macedonian
1 entries- типографија noun (art and technique)
Malay
1 entries- tipografi noun (art and technique)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- typografi noun (art and technique)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- typografi noun (art and technique)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- باصمه noun (art and technique)
Persian
1 entries- تایپوگرافی noun (art and technique)
Polish
1 entries- typografia noun (art and technique)
Portuguese
1 entries- tipografia noun (art and technique)
Romanian
2 entries- tipar noun (art and technique)
- tipografie noun (art and technique)
Russian
2 entries- книгопеча́тание noun (art and technique)
- типогра́фика noun (art and technique)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- clò-ghrafachd noun (art and technique)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tipogràfija noun (art and technique)
- типогра̀фија noun (art and technique)
Slovak
1 entries- typografia noun (art and technique)
Slovene
1 entries- tipografija noun (art and technique)
Spanish
1 entries- tipografía noun (art and technique)
Swedish
1 entries- typografi noun (art and technique)
Tagalog
1 entries- palalimbitan noun (art and technique)
Thai
1 entries- การพิมพ์ noun (art and technique)
Turkish
1 entries- tipografi noun (art and technique)
Ukrainian
1 entries- типографія noun (art and technique)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thuật in máy noun (art and technique)
Yiddish
1 entries- טיפּאָגראַפֿיע noun (art and technique)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Typography is the discipline of using type to set texts into a form that is pleasant to read.
Source: tatoeba (896930)
That kinetic typography video you made was awesome, Jim!
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The invention of typography in the fifteenth century marked the beginning of a new civilization and the end of the medieval thousand years.
Source: tatoeba (11794297)
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