Introduction to Typography
Graphic artists and printers know a lot more about letters than most people. They have all kinds of special ways of describing them. For example, most of the time they call letters type. Type is a printed form of letters. Graphic artists need to be more exact about letters, or type, than most people because their job includes the arrangement of type.
Arranging type is called typography. Because the arrangement of type is important to the design of a layout, it is part of the design stage. All graphic artists know about typography, and some specialize in this area of graphic arts. They are called typographers.