different between typomania vs typomaniac

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typomania (uncountable)

enthusiasm for typography
- 1938, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (page 27)
  One of the most virulent cases of typomania was that of the man who, some ten years ago, inveigled his fiancee to go to Washington to be married in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving because he considered it the most appropriate setting […]
- 1986, Small Printer (volume 22, page 35)
  When typomania strikes, sooner or later the victim is seized with an irresistible urge to print a display of the types he holds — perhaps on a single sheet, perhaps in a series of typecards.

typo- +? maniac

typomaniac (plural typomaniacs)

A person who is obsessed with typography, or more generally with the business of printing and publishing

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