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typographer

[ tahy-pog-ruh-fer ]

noun

  1. a person skilled or engaged in typography.


typographer

/ ٲɪˈɒɡəə /

noun

  1. a person skilled in typography
  2. another name for compositor
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of typographer1

First recorded in 1635–45; typograph(y) + -er 1
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“We were typographers before we were printers,” Cary says, pointing to the hulking Intertype brand typography machine dating from the early 20th century that stands in one of the shop windows.

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Graham Clifford, the campaign’s designer and art director, “came in to really fine-tune the logo and has a deep legacy in design. In fact, his father was a typographer,” Banikarim said.

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Poets differ from writers of prose in that they, not the typographer, choose where their lines should end, thus giving them the ability to play with a reader’s sense of time.

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For Baker, there is something about writing an appointment down that drills it into her memory more than when she types it; also, Baker used to be a typographer and maker of high-end paper.

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Working with designers and typographers at Commercial Type, we spent months crafting the typeface to integrate it into Nature’s overall design language, inspired by the mid-century Swiss modernist school of rational design.

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