typographic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“I myself am unequivocally guilty of this serif-as-humanity signaling,” wrote designer Keya Vadgama in a March Substack post, adding, “there is a certain irony in using distinctly human typographic touches to present something fundamentally non-human.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Performance attire now includes sneakers, typographic T-shirts, deconstructed bottoms and even denims.
From BBC • May 31, 2025
There are a few different explanations that math enthusiasts have put forward – some citing translation, others pointing to a more typographic origin.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023
He’s celebrated as a literary heir to giants like Turgenev, Gogol and Nabokov, but at times, he’s questioned the value of literature, dismissing novels as “just paper with typographic signs.”
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2022
There they can be fruitfully active in less risky work: illustration, typographic design, industrial design, and interior design, for example.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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