What's the difference between calligraphy and typography?

Calligraphy


Definition:

  • (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
  • (2) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
  • (3) During the early 1960s, Burroughs and his colleague, the painter and writer Brion Gysin , had developed the cut-up as a method of visual and verbal reassembly that was equally applicable to painting, montaged artworks, calligraphy, tape manipulation and the word.
  • (4) He stays healthy and alert by eating well and practising calligraphy, according to his family.
  • (5) Thus began the evolution of this city’s distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
  • (6) "She was so approachable," said Lu Yuhong, 16, who guided the first lady in writing the Chinese character "eternal" in calligraphy at the Beijing school.
  • (7) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
  • (8) Stores are offering Rooster-themed products, Chinese calligraphy or handing out treats in traditional red envelopes.
  • (9) But Mo told Der Spiegel that he only joined in with the project because he was "vain enough to take the opportunity to show off with my calligraphy".
  • (10) Ahmad Salma, a Syrian of Palestinian origin, used the sinuous swirls of different styles of Arabic calligraphy to spell out the names of the provinces of Syria – to emphasise unity in the face of violence and rising sectarianism.
  • (11) With chainsaws and chisels, carving ice requires techniques from tree surgery to calligraphy.
  • (12) He left his homeland in the early 60s to spend two years in China, steeping himself in its language and calligraphy.
  • (13) In the few hours that sunlight enters the dark cell we read what a past cellmate has inscribed on the walls in an elegant Arabic calligraphy.
  • (14) Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
  • (15) Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who , but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.
  • (16) Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.
  • (17) He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
  • (18) For services to Western Calligraphy and the community in Northern Ireland.
  • (19) Not only is Mao's own rather wild calligraphy everywhere to be seen in Shaoshan - on paper, on rocks, on walls, on silk - but also that of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
  • (20) Wen Huaisha, a former Pekin University teacher and a specialist in Chinese literature is in France for an exhibition of his calligraphy at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris.

Typography


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
  • (n.) The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dos Passos, like his innovative contemporary EE Cummings, played with typography and layout.
  • (2) As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
  • (3) Tim Pigott-Smith (terrific actor, but also an expert on typography) told me that.
  • (4) The Braun catalogues were plundered not only for the pop-up toaster but also the portable combination grill and even the immaculate typography.
  • (5) Things like typography are as important as a building, they’re used millions of times – so why not think of it as part of the DNA of the city itself?” Moscow’s vision, he explains, is “to build a world-class legible transportation network” within two to three years, starting with its metro.
  • (6) These results suggest that induced ipsilateral projections are formed by regenerating axon collaterals and that all cell types are involved in the generation of normal mirror image typography.
  • (7) Our experience with the Apple Macintosh and LaserWriter equipment has convinced us that lasergraphics holds much current and future promise in the creation of line graphics and typography for the biomedical community.
  • (8) The typographic style, influenced by fashionable modernist Swiss typography, was both inviting and as clear as a sheet of glass.
  • (9) I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
  • (10) First you write it, then you design the typography and lay out the hand lettering.
  • (11) It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
  • (12) Using this DSA, it was found that regional perfusion of the contrast medium was not always uniform in normal subjects, depending on the typography of the coronary artery.
  • (13) I would also make a very strong case for 2D artists to get to grips with the basics of graphic design as the essentials of shape language, page layout and a grasp of typography come in handy way more than you’d think.
  • (14) Photographs are among the materials she uses (along with language, typography, hanging); she shows what she does in a fine arts environment .
  • (15) "Penguin stood for a democratisation of design," says Phil Baines, professor of typography at Central Saint Martins and author of Penguin by Design .
  • (16) It’s a black T-shirt with white typography that says “Alternative Facts are Lies”.
  • (17) It was the first computer with beautiful typography."
  • (18) With the rise of interactive design, design that doesn’t need to be made in a hub city, we were hoping in this project that perhaps design could be a player in how we make our city grow.” But while it’s clear that typography, as one manifestation of design, can and has done a lot for these smaller cities, it cannot be the whole solution.
  • (19) If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
  • (20) They argued that carcinoma and dysplasia do not share the same typography, so they may be 2 separate entities.