Can we use ‘diminuendo’ in typography?

Actually, diminuendo is term about music. It is a rhythym mark directing which effects playing the music passages softly or gradually. However, it is also used in typography. I found this definiton for diminuendo on the net ” diminuendo is a type arrangement in which a large letter or word leads the eye, gradually, to smaller and smaller words until a standard text size is established”. People are still using it today with initial cap or large single letter. Especially, it is used on articles and some part of books. Diminuendo style was used with subtitles, titles or captions on the middle ages. When we came to the posmodern era which has lots of technological advantages, diminuendo is being to started to use differently on printed pages or some websites. Some examples are below: