Example sentences for: typography

How can you use “typography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.

  • The Wall Street Journal quotes economist Robert Shapiro as saying that the post-budget-bill era will be "a whole new 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.

  • However, a design or distinctive style of typography can be a trademark, and the distinctive manner of printing Thermos as a symbol remains protected.


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