The article 'Web Design is 95% Typography' begins to give a decent explanation of just what typography is, and how and why we, as web designers, need to know this, and use it well.
The first quote that the author gives by Emil Ruder does an exceptional job of explaining the necessity of the job, and how it has changed over a period of time. Another quote that he offers seems to explain the duty of typographers in a more straightforward fashion, however... "Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing."
Overall, what I took from this article was that with the amount of information on the internet in this day and age, and given how simple it is for someone with little knowledge on a subject to put information online, it is a typographer/web designer's duty to sift through the bad information, and put the correct information in an appropriate, usable format for users.
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