Week 14 – 7162

On December 12, 2010, in Week 14, by Genevieve HItchings

Hello class,

Here are the vocab words to review for next weeks quiz: 

Alignment
Rag (left / right)
Flush (left / right)
Justify
Centered (rag left & right)
Small Caps
Ascender
Descender
Drop Cap
Grid
: a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
Page gutter
: Line or fold at which facing pages meet.
Spine
: the part of a book’s cover that encloses the inner side of the book’s pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved;
Master page
Style sheet
Specs
Text/ body copy
Comp
Greeking/ Latin text
: placeholder text, usually it does not make sense.
Text column
: A rectangular object that controls the placement of text.
Indent
: set in from the margin; extra spaces (usually 5) at the beginning of a paragraph
Bad break
: In composition, starting a page or ending a paragraph with a single word, or widow.
Typo
: misprint: a mistake in printed matter
River
: In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by either full text justification or monospaced fonts.
Widow
: a single word or part of a word on a line by itself, ending a paragraph, or starting a page, frowned upon in good typography.
Orphan
: the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
Leaders
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Text wrap/ runaround
: the technique of flowing text around graphic elements.
Clipping path
: a means to make parts of an image opaque and parts of an image transparent. Usually it is used to “knock out” the background. It is also a way of changing the rectangular-shaped boundary of a bitmap image into a shape of your choice.
Pull quotes
: is a quotation or edited from an article that is typically placed in a larger typeface
Text gutter/ alley
Tint
Gradient
Bleed/ trim
Text inset

 

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