[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

typography \typog"raphy\, n. type + -graphy: cf. f.
   typographie.
   1. the act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols;
      emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. obs. --sir
      t. browne.
      1913 webster

   2. the art of printing with types; the use of types to
      produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

typography
     n 1: the craft of composing type and printing from it
     2: art and technique of printing with movable type syn: composition
see also:
composition 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

54 moby thesaurus words for "typography":
   albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy,
   chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, electronography,
   electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving,
   history of printing, job printing, letterpress,
   letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography,
   lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset,
   offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset,
   photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process,
   photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography,
   phototypography, phototypy, photozincography,
   planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking,
   publication, publishing, relief printing, rotary photogravure,
   rotogravure, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing,
   two-color printing, typolithography, wood-block printing,
   xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

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