How to Use typographic in a Sentence

typographic

adjective
  • All caps is a typographic way of conveying the same set of cues.
    Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 23 July 2019
  • Before the streaming era, artists liked to pinch and twist the letters in their names, using their album covers to posit themselves as rebels, rule-breakers and typographic scofflaws.
    Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Before his death, Glaser was brewing a typographic tonic for the melancholy and estrangement the pandemic has brought.
    Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 8 July 2020
  • Bieber is nothing if not loyal to the Bieber brand and this John Deer-ish forest-green-and-bright-yellow hoodie shares typographic placement and a fit reminiscent of Bieber's own in-demand merch.
    Liza Corsillo, GQ, 7 Aug. 2017
  • This typographic trick purportedly shortens the time needed for our brains to process data.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 June 2022
  • The new logo will lose the old-time feel of Henry Ford's iconic signature and the Ford oval, instead taking on a contemporary typographic approach.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The lower-case g actually comes in two typographic forms: The fish hook, a circle with a left facing curl beneath it, and the loop-tail, two closed, connected circles with a sort of rightward-facing tassel on the top one.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Cool Spanish-typographic label on this Jolly Rancher-red wine.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • From typographic to botanical, abstract to illustrative, there’s a page in it for everyone.
    CNN Underscored, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Over the course of filming, Seibold created all sorts of typographic materials for Riley.
    Eliza Brooke, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Before Fluide, Giancarlo worked in design, creative strategy, and dabbled in typographic cake-making while Kraber worked in the start-up sphere and as a nutritionist.
    Ludmila Leiva, Allure, 10 Sep. 2018
  • From the beginning, the design of his photo volumes, especially their high-impact typographic covers, were nearly as important to their success as their contents.
    Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 18 June 2022
  • But no prior research found by Johnson, Bui, and Schmitt actually measured reader performance with each typographic scheme.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 7 May 2018
  • When voters began writing on ballots and swapping out names, political parties resorted to more typographic antics to foil them.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The writers on staff, with their ESP-level typographic memory, their grammatical prowess, and their delightful verbal excesses, may or may not know how this will end: with Howitzer’s will dictating the closure of the magazine upon his death.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2021
  • These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, that typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.
    John Brownlee, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2006
  • But its typographic vocabulary, which attempts to be current and contemporary, does not complement the original.
    Steven Heller, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The proposals ranged from small interventions, such as repurposed oil barrels, to large scale installations and community events, like typographic murals.
    Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Math enthusiasts have proposed a few different explanations, with some citing translation and others pointing to a more typographic origin.
    Peter Schumer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gold foil, gold paper and beautiful typographic embellishments.
    Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Choi interspersed sections of text with typographic experiments, handwritten documents, maps, drawings and archival materials.
    NBC News, 30 Sep. 2021

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