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typographic

typographic

2 5.9
About the look and arrangement of letters and text on a page or screen
  • adjective
  • /ˌtaɪpəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tipográfico
  • A skilled designer uses typographic elements to enhance the readability of text in advertisements.
  • typographic design

So I went down the typography typographic rabbit hole.

Examples

  • I mean HTML, despite CSS cannot really aspire to the same standards of typographic excellence as PDF can.

  • Subtitle: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice.

    Blog text (24)

  • There seems to be no typographic system in place.

    Blog text (22)

  • Cover 99designs.com or, even better, have a strong typographic cover style so you can just use a common template.

    Blog text (10)

  • There's quite a bit of color and typographic variation which comes across as a little unpolished.

    Blog text (22)

  • However, with Lissitzky, the typographic moniker had begun to approach the status of a trademark.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Weiner increasingly resorted to typographic symbols as mute signs that, while not pronounced, determine a statement's meaning.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The typeface does this by being linear and graphic rather than typographic, capturing a spirit of simplicity, modernity, and angular geometry.

    Blog text (34)

  • Even within iBooks' limited selection of typographic options, Frank's chapter openings, headers, and spacing all mimic his print edition.

    Blog text (13)

  • The book features an eye-catching cover due to its creative typographic design.

Synonyms

typographical
vstypographic
5 6.0

About the look and arrangement of printed letters and text

shares the same meaning but appears as the alternative adjective form

Surface Forms

typographic positive

Morphology

typographic = typography (transparent) = type + graphy + ic

This is a regular adjectival formation meaning 'relating to typography', so the meaning follows directly from the base noun plus '-ic'.

Etymology

Typographic comes from parts that mean 'type' and 'writing': typo- for 'type', a printed letter or mark, and -graphic for 'writing'. So, something typographic is about the look, style, and arrangement of letters and text.