illustrative vs typical

illustrative

adj
  • Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating. 

typical

adj
  • Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type. 

  • Capturing the overall sense of a thing. 

  • Normal, average; to be expected. 

  • Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon. 

noun
  • Anything that is typical, normal, or standard. 

How often have the words illustrative and typical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )