Typography is the art of selecting and using appropriate fonts in web, books, magazines, newspapers, etc., and is one of the most fundamental graphical design skills. However, almost everywhere you encounter typography, they say font instead of type.
What does "type" mean in this context? I always thought of type as "a kind," not as something related to printing industry or graphical design. On the other hand, font is something we all know.
So, why not fontography?
Best Answer
From Wikipedia:
The meaning of type in this context is #3 in the link:
The Wikipedia article continues with:
A typeface is a set of one or more fonts that is coordinated, for instance:
A font by itself is a simple set of letters in one style, and generally one size.
Using "fontography" would grossly misrepresent what typology is all about, since font selection is really only a small part of it. Of course, it would be fine to use fontography to describe what people are doing when they use Fontographer, for instance, but that involves the creation of new fonts, which has little to do with typography.