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What is the key difference between Calligraphy and Typography?

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Question added by Samar Maraqa , UI/UX Designer , Genie9
Date Posted: 2016/06/22
Adnan Salim Jeewani
by Adnan Salim Jeewani , Senior Creative Designer , Azizi Developments

Typography is all about "how you place, arrange or rearrange different kinds of fonts or type faces."

Calligraphy is all about "the art of Conveying a Calli attractively via manually-handwriting with follows a specific structure and rules as well."

 

Calligraphy is pen made; usually writing or drawing letters

Typogrpahy is skill of setting ype

Carine Bouery
by Carine Bouery , Happiness Trainer and Coach , Carine Bouery

Caligraphy is the art of drawing letters, words and phrases in certain ways using the hands with special pens and brushes that create abstract compositions with the drawn text; it is the basis at which the art and science of Typography is formed. Typography is both an art and a science for designing and setting type or fonts for the alphabet of different languages; it looks not only at the design and style of a font but also how the type will appear in terms of spacing, dimensions and detailing of the letters.

Sebastian Fuerte
by Sebastian Fuerte , Graphic Communicator Leader / Graphic Designer , Okaz Organization for Press & Publication

Calligraphy is a handwritten (manual) decorative style of letters while typograghy can be done by technical or digital printing.  

Awwab Ahmed
by Awwab Ahmed , Web-Developer, Graphic-Designer. , Conobio

Calligraphy-the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.

Typography-The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs (kerning).

Mohammed Osama
by Mohammed Osama , Co-Founder and Motion Graphic Designer , KORKOR Toon

Calligraphy is writing and it is the art of expressing a text beautifully via handwriting,

Typography is the art of setting type, it is the working with fonts typesetting them and creating beautiful graphic design.

Slobodan Zornic
by Slobodan Zornic , Designer , CT media

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. Modern calligraphy ranges from functional inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the letters may or may not be readable.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.Typography is the work of typesetters - also known as compositors -, typographers, graphic designers, art directors.

 Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may practice both

Calligraphy is the art of the pen; drawing the letters and it is ancient. Most famous are the Latin and Arabic calligraphy.Typography is the understanding of the type, finding the harmony between the letter and the next, the word and the next and even the line and the one below it. Also the layouts and orientation of the paragraphs how your eyes see it and if its easy to read or not.There is a lot more to it than that of course. But that is the difference in a nut shell.

Ali Raza Shaheb
by Ali Raza Shaheb , Computer Operator , NIC

Calligrapy is a drawing of letter, words or phrase to express its meaning beautifully. It is handmade done by Pen, Brush etc.

Typography is setting up fonts beautifully to express its meaning. It is digital and can be done in computer. 

Kalpana Prasad
by Kalpana Prasad , Creative Designer , I-ponti

Calligraphy essentially denotes the hand written style of a text. Whereas typography is the skill of putting together different typefaces in a visually aesthic manner. 

moses tongesai mutowo
by moses tongesai mutowo , Art and EnglishTeacher , Skyline Combined school

 Calligraphy involves the skill of writing letters with a free hand, whereas typography involves the layout ,style of how to arrange those letters together.

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