typographer

American  

[tahy-pog-ruh-fer] / taɪˈpɒg rə fər /

noun

1. a person skilled or engaged in typography.

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typographer British  

/ taɪˈpɒɡrəfə /

noun

1. a person skilled in typography

2. another name for compositor

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Etymology

Origin of typographer

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

Example Sentences

Frederiksen was born into a working class family of longstanding Social Democrats, her father a typographer and mother a pre-school teacher.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Frederiksen, raised by a typographer father and a mother who worked in daycare, joined youth politics to fight social inequality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2021

It was designed by Roger Excoffon, a French typographer and graphic designer whose work departed from the Modernist trends that characterized midcentury type design.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2018

The typographer should be guided by them but he need not make mathematical calculations if his eyes be trained to judge relative attraction values so that he can arrange his various masses to secure balance.

From Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Gage, Harry Lawrence