How to Use typesetting in a Sentence

typesetting

noun
  • Lorem Ipsum’s been the norm in printing and typesetting since the 1500s, when an anonymous printer used it to show different type fonts.
    Rob Weinberg, Pomerado News, 14 June 2018
  • After the day’s work was done, Deford fell into the habit of going along with the newspaper’s typesetting and printing men to a workingman’s bar down by the docks.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
  • Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Twain made many poor investments in his time, at one time losing him hundreds of thousands of dollars (on an automatic typesetting piece).
    Logan Sykes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2015
  • There were no computers, no CNN, no electronic typesetting, no e-mail and no satellite transmissions.
    Jim Minter, ajc, 6 June 2018
  • Typographical fashions change, and since the digital age overtook typesetting and graphic design, many of the fonts common in the time of Lovecraft have fallen into disuse.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2008
  • His father, who is retired, was the owner of National Electronic Type, a typesetting company, also in Topeka.
    Jessica Morris, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Collender: Dead on arrival, dead before printing, dead before typesetting, etc.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 23 May 2017
  • Levin’s father, who had programmed computers for the Soviet weather service, landed a job at Compugraphic, a typesetting company.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Eventually syndicates began providing thin metal stereotype plates, or the lightweight casts used to make them, called matrices, which let publishers skip the typesetting process altogether.
    Julia Guarneri, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2019
  • His enthusiasm for new technology led to investments in a money-losing typesetting machine.
    Richard Gunderman, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Mattern breaks down the accessible design choices made on screen: Arial font, intermittent use of all capital letters, dramatic typesetting.
    Clay Chandler, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2020

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