Abridge: To shorten by omissions
while retaining the basic contents; to reduce or
lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish;
curtail (Websters, p. 6)
Adobe Acrobat: Suite of applications
to create and view PDF files.
Aliasing: The term is commonly
applied to spatial aliasing, which manifests as
visible pixelation - a blocky or jagged effect
- especially with near horizontal or near vertical
lines of high contrast.
Anti-alias: The blending of pixel
colors on the perimeter of hard-edged shapes, like
type, to smooth undesirable edges (jaggies).
Alpha channel: A special 8-bit
grayscale channel that is used for saving a selection.
Alley: the space between columns
within a page. Not to be confused with the gutter,
which is the combination of the inside margins
of two facing pages.
Ascender: in typography, the
parts of lowercase letters that rise above the
x-height of the font, e.g. b, d, f, h, k, I, and
t.
Assonance: Resemblance of sounds.
Also called vowel rhyme - rhyme in which the same
vowel sounds are used with different consonants
in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words,
as in penitent and reticence.
Asymmetric: Not identical on both
sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry
(Webster's, p. 129)
B
Banner: the title of a periodical,
which appears on the cover of the magazine
and on the first page of the newsletter.
It contains the name of the publication and
serial information, date, volume, number
.
Baseline: in typography,
the imaginary horizontal line upon which
the main body of the letters sits. Rounded
letters actually dip slightly below the
baseline to give optical balance.
Bevel: Adding a beveled effect
to a graphic image gives the image a raised or
lowered appearance by applying highlight colors
and shadow colors to the inside and outside edges.
Bitmapped (mode): the Paint graphics
mode describes an image made of pixels where the
pixel is either on (black) or off (white).
Black (font): a font
that has more weight than the bold version
of a typeface.
Bleed: an element that extends
to the edge of the page. To print a bleed, the
publication is printed on oversized paper which
is trimmed. Relative to Crop
marks.
Block quote: a long quotation
-- four or more lines -- within body
text, that
is set apart in order to clearly distinguish the
author's words from the words that the author is
quoting.
Body type: roman -- normal, plain,
or book -- type used for long passages of text,
such a stories in a newsletter, magazine, or chapters
in a book. Generally sized from 9 point to 14 point.
Byline: in newsletter/magazine
layout, a credit line for the author of an article. |
