typography Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the craft of composing type and printing from it
  2. noun art and technique of printing with movable type
    composition.

WordNet

Ty*pog"ra*phy noun
Etymology
Type + -graphy: cf. F. typographie.
Definitions
  1. The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. Obs. Sir T. Browne.
  2. The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.

Webster 1913