Printing. [f. Gr. λόγο-ς word + TYPE.] A type containing a word, or two or more letters, cast in one piece.
a. 1816. Earl Stanhope, in Hansard, Typographia (1825), 477. I have deemed it advisable to contrive a new pair of composing cases … introducing a new set of double letters [these were on, of, to, re, an, th, in, se; they were not printed as ligatures], which I denominate logotypes; and rejecting altogether the double letters ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, ft, ct, formerly occupying room in the cases, but used so seldom that [etc.].
1880. Printing Times, 15 Feb., 41/2. The use of logotypes does rather enhance than lower the cost of printing.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 22 Jan., 3/2. Are the Corean letters or logotypes as numerous as the Chinese?
b. Comb.
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., II. vi. 107. The logotype system was once attempted at the Times office, but soon abandoned.
1896. H. Hart, in Collect., Ser. III. (O. H. S.), 407. The Times newspaper was started in order to show that logotype-printing was the only proper way to print!
Hence Logotypy = LOGOGRAPHY 1.
1824. Watts, Bibliotheca, Index Subjects, Logography, or Logotypy, the art of uniting several characters into a single type.
