typographer

[ tahy-pog-ruh-fer ]

noun

1. a person skilled or engaged in typography.

typographer

/ taɪˈpɒɡrəfə /

noun

1. a person skilled in typography
2. another name for compositor

Word History and Origins

Origin of typographer¹

First recorded in 1635–45; typograph(y) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, offers a glimpse inside the mind of the immortal typographer.

From New York Times

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.

From Washington Post

But the problem was that the Cornish countryside–based typographer who created Blooming Elegant trio didn’t know that Zazzle offered it, according to the lawsuit Laatz filed in a district court in Silicon Valley last August.

From Slate

There are Irish touches throughout the building — most conspicuously, the main stairway will feature lines of Irish poetry on the risers, but also the signs throughout the building are in Irish as well as English, in a font created in collaboration with the Irish typographer Bobby Tannam.

From New York Times

Back then, the personal computer revolution was just beginning, and typographer Vincent Connaire was working on new fonts.

From BBC