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fontography

noun

Etymology

From font + -graphy.

  1. derived from fundō
  2. derived from *fundita✻
  3. derived from *ǵʰewd-✻ — “to pour”
  4. derived from fundere
  5. derived from fondre
  6. derived from fonte — “act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”
  7. suffixed as fontography — “font + graphy”

Definitions

  1. The design and study of fonts, or typefaces.

    • One of the pioneers of the new fontography is Zuzana Licko (b. 1961), who started designing typefaces in 1985 […]
    • Type instruction should include a range of endeavors from metal typefounding to digital fontography.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fontography. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA