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Example sentences for: typography
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Those who are not designers but typographers steeped in statistics of readability and other scientific applications to typography are fully aware that because of the redundancy built into its characters, almost any serif font is more (readily) legible than any sans-serif face, and trying to make a book look modern by using sans-serif makes no sense at all.
The Wall Street Journal quotes economist Robert Shapiro as saying that the post-budget-bill era will be "a whole new typography."
These two, as can be seen from the bibliographic information above, are almost exactly the same length, and their trim sizes are identical; the typography of the ODNW is superior as is the binding, Neologisms , though higher priced, being perfectbound, like a paperback, and characterized by atrocious typography.
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
There are many specialist fields represented in a dictionary--phonetics, semantics, morphology, phonemics, diachronic and comparative linguistics, symbology, typography, etc.--and the average dictionary user, whether he be a novelist or not is ill equipped academically to pass judgment on how a given dictionary has dealt with such areas.