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| Small type (usually 5.5 point) used for sports statistics, stock tables, classified ads, etc. |
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| The negative (or white) space used in a story design |
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| Type that uses only capital letters |
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| A way to tell a story other than using straight narrative text |
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| A computer software program that performs a specific task: word processing, page layout, illustration, etc. |
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| An awkward-looking page layout where a story's banner headline sits on top of a photo or another headline |
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| The part of a letter extending above the x-height (as in b, d, f, h, k, l, t). |
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| A line identifying the source of a quote |
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| A wide headline extending across the entire page |
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| A thick rule. Often used for decoration, or to contain type for subheads or standing heads |
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| A chart comparing statistical values by depicting them as bars. |
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| An imaginary line that type rests on. |
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| A software command that allows you to raise or lower the baseline of designated text characters. |
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| Any non-standard width for a column of text |
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| A page element that extends to the trimmed edge of a printed page |
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| A mixture of two colors that fade gradually from one tint to another |
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| A web log; an online journal that provides commentary and/or links to related websites |
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| Type used for text (in newspapers, it usually ranges from 8 to 10 points) |
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| A heavier, darker weight of a typeface; used to add emphasis |
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| A rule used to form a box or to edge a photograph |
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| A ruled border around a story or a visual element |
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| A full-size newspaper, measuring roughly 11 by 24 inches |
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| A software program (such as Firefox or Safari) that enables users to view web pages of the internet |
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| Another term for a sig or logo used to label a story; often indented into the text |
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| A type of dingbat, usually a dot, that is used to highlight items listed in the text |
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| Headlines from adjacent stories that collide with each other on a page. Also called tombstoning |
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| The reporter's name, usually found at the beginning of a story |
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| Words, phrases, or text blocks used to label parts of a map or diagram (also called factoids). |
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| The finished page elements that are ready for printing |
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| Capital or uppercase letters |
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| A line or block of type providing descriptive information about a photo; this term is used interchangeably with cutline |
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| Art or type that's aligned symmetrically, sharing a common midpoint |
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| A typeset letter, numeral, or punctuation mark |
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| An acronym for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black-the four ink colors used in color printing |
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| A vertical stack of text; also called a leg. |
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| A way to measure the depth of text or ads; it's an area one column wide and one inch deep |
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| A graphic device that labels regularly appearing material by packaging the writer's name, the column's name and a small mug or drawing of the writer |
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| A vertical line separating stories or running between legs within a story |
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| Compressed/condensed type |
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| Characters narrower than the standard set width |
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| Type telling the reader that a story continues on another page |
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| A photo or drawing using shades of gray. To be reproduced in a newspaper, the image must be converted into a halftone |
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| A small chunk of text accompanying a photo spread or introducing a special package |
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| Legal protection for stories, photos, or artwork to discourage unauthorized reproduction |
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| To trim the shape or composition of a photo before it runs in the paper |
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| A line or block of type that provides descriptive information about a photo |
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| A horizontal line running above or under a story, photo, or cutline to separate it from another element above or below it. |
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| A photo where the background has been removed, leaving only the main subject; also called a silhouette |
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| A small headline running below the main headline; also called a drop head or subhead |
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| The part of a letter extending below the baseline (as in g, j, p, q, y). |
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| Decorative type characters (such as bullets, stars, boxes, etc.) used for emphasis or effect |
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| A non-standard headline (often used with decorative type, rules, all caps, etc.) used to enhance the design of a feature story, photo spread, or news package |
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| L-shaped columns of text that wrap around art, ads, or other stories on the page |
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| A special screen used to produce tiny rows of dots, thus allowing newspapers to print shades of gray |
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| The number of electronic dots per inch that a printer can print-or that a digital image contains. The higher the dpi, the more precise the resolution |
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| Two facing pages on the same sheet of newsprint, treated as one unit |
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| A headline style that capitalizes only the first word and proper nouns |
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| A small headline running below the main headline; also called a deck or subhead |
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| A thin shadow effect added to characters in a headline or applied to visual elements |
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| A small, detailed page diagram (or sketch, thumbnail) showing where all the elements go |
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| A halftone that uses two color, usually black and a spot color |
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| Text that extends into a column alongside its headline; also called a raw wrap |
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| Text or graphic elements on either side of a newspaper's flag |
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| Three periods (...) used to indicate the omission of words |
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| An old printing term for a square-shaped blank space that's as wide as the type is high; in other words, a 10-point em space will be 10 points wide |
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| Half a em space; a 10-point en space will be 5 points wide |
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| To increase the size of an image (or even text) |
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| A common computer format for saving scans, especially illustrations (short for Encapsulated PostScript) |
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| Characters wider than the standard set width |
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| All the different weights and styles (italic, boldface, condensed, etc.) of one typeface |
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| Frequently asked questions |
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| A non-hard-news story (a profile, preview, quiz, etc.) often given special design treatments |
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| A chart concerning points on a graph to show changing quantities over time; also called a line chart |
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| The total number of electronic pixels needed to create a digital image, measured in kilobytes. The more pixels an image uses, the more detail it will contain. |
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| A small story or graphic element used to fill space on a page |
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| The name of a newspaper as it's displayed on Page One; also called a nameplate |
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| To dummy a photo or headline in an empty space so that it looks good to the designer, but looks awkward and unaligned to everyone else |
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| To create a backward, mirror image of a photo or illustration |
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| Elements aligned so they're all even along their left margin |
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| Elements aligned so they're all even along their right margin |
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| Type at the top of an inside page giving the newspaper's name, date, and page number |
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| All the characters in one size and weight of a typeface |
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| The printing process that combines cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and black to produce full-color photos and artwork |
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| Web design tools that divide pages into separate, scrollable modules |
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| The entire image area of a photograph |
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| Graphic Interface Format, a common format for compressed web images, especially illustrations and graphics |
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| Newsroom slang for paragraph |
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| Statistical information presented visually, using lines or bars to represent values |
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| A scan of a photograph or artwork that uses shades of gray |
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| The underlying pattern of lines forming the framework of a page; also, to align elements on a page |
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| The space running vertically between columns |
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| Hyphenation and justification; the computerized spacing and aligning of text |
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| The thinnest rule used in newspapers |
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| A photograph or drawing that has been converted into a pattern of tiny dots. By screening images this way, printing presses can reproduce shades of gray |
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| A headline that uses a big, bold word or phrase for impact and runs with a small, wide deck |
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| Type set with the first line flush left and all other lines in that paragraph indentyed |
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| A special label for any regularly appearing section, page, or story; also called a standing head |
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| Large type running above or beside a story to summarize its content; also called a head, for short |
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| An output device capable of resolution from 1,200 to 5,000 dots per inch |
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| Dividing a word with a hyphen at the end of a line |
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| In web design, any photo, illustration, or imported graphic displayed on a page |
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| The physical dimensions of the final scanned image |
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| To bring an electronic image into a computer software program |
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| A part of a column set in a narrower width. The first line of a paragraph is usually indented; columns are often indented to accommodate art, logos, or initial caps |
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| An alphabetized list of contents and their page numbers |
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| Newsroom slang for "informational graphic"; any map, chart, or diagram used to analyze an event, object, or place |
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| A large capital letter set at the beginning of a paragraph |
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| Art or text set inside other art or text |
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| Type that slants to the right |
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| A programming language that features animation |
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| A common format for compressed web images, especially photos. Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
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| To continue a story on another page; text that's been continued on another page is called the jump |
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| A special headline treatment reserved for stories continued from another page |
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| Type telling the reader that a story is continued to or from another page |
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| Mechanically spacing out lines of text so they're all even along both right and left margins |
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| Tightening the spacing between letters |
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| A small, short, one-line headline, often underscored, placed above a larger headline |
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| An output device that prints computer-generated text and graphics, usually at a lower resolution than professional typesetters |
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| The placement of art and text on a page; to lay out a page is to design it |
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| A dotted line used with tab stops |
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| A word or phrase in contrasting type that precedes a cutline, headline, or text |
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| Vertical spacing between lines of type, measure in points |
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| The ease with which type characters can be read |
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| The amount of air between characters in a word |
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| A graphic treatment of a quotation taken from a story, often using bold or italic type, rules, or screens. Also called a pull quote |
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| An image comprised of solid black and white-no gray tones, as opposed to a grayscale image |
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| A chart connecting points on a graph to show changing quantities over time; also called a fever chart |
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| The number of lines of dots per inch in a halftone screen. The higher the lpi, the more precise the image's resolution will be |
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| A word or name that's stylized in a graphic way; used to refer to standing heads in a newspaper |
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| The space between elements |
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| A block of information, including staff names and publication data, often printed on the editorial page |
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| The master page from which printing plates are made; also called a paste-up |
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| The width of a headline or column of text |
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| A design system that views a page as a stack of rectangles |
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| An eerie pattern that's formed when a previously screened photo is copied, then reprinted using a new line screen |
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| Placing one element (text, photo, artwork) so it partially overlaps another |
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| A small photo showing a person's face |
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| The name of a newspaper as it's displayed on Page One; also called a flag |
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| A printing process, used by most newspapers, where the image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then printed on paper |
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| A short word or phrase that's carried over to a new column or page; also called a widow |
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| A clear plastic sheet placed over a pasted-up page, containing elements that the printer needs to screen, overprint or print in another color |
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| A small headline that runs above a photo; usually used with stand-alone art |
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| The process of generating a page on a computer |
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| A line that tells who shot a photograph |
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| Visual devices that photographers use within their photos so that the images are more effective and have greater impact |
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| A standard unit of measure in newspapers. There are 6 picas in one inch, 12 points in one pica |
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| The smallest dot you can draw on a computer screen (short for "picture element"). |
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| A standard unit of measure in printing. There are 12 points in one pica, 72 points in one inch |
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| One of the four standard colors used to produce full-color photos and artwork; cyan, magenta, yellow, and black |
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| A copy of a pasted-up page used to check for errors. To check a page is to proofread it |
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| Another name for liftout quote |
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| Advertisements stacked up one side of a page, wide at the base but progressively smaller near the top |
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| Words spoken by someone in a story. In page-design jargon, a liftout quote is a graphic treatment of a quotation, often using bold or italic type, rules, or screens |
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| Type that is not justified; the left edge of all the lines is even, but the right edge is uneven |
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| Text that extends into a column alongside its headline; also called a dutch wrap |
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| A line or paragraph, often given graphic treatment, referring to a related story elsewhere in the paper |
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| To align different color plates or overlays so they're perfectly positioned when they print |
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| The quality of digital detail in an image, depending upon its number of dots per inch |
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| A printing technique that creates white type on a dark background; also called a dropout |
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| An acronym for red, green, blue-a color format used by computer monitors and video systems |
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| Upright type, as opposed to slanted type; also called normal or regular |
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| Text that wraps around an image; also called a wraparound or skew |
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| The intensity or brightness of color in an image |
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| To reduce or enlarge artwork or photographs |
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| The overall spacing between characters in a block of type |
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| A computer input device that transforms printed matter (photos, illustrations, or text) into electronic data |
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| A pattern of tiny dots used to create gray areas; to screen a photo is to turn it into a halftone |
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| The finishing stroke at the end of a letter; type without these decorative strokes is called sans serif |
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| A computer used for storing and sending users the pages that make up a website |
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| A small story accompanying a bigger story on the same topic |
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| A headline placed to the left of a story, instead of above it; also called a side head |
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| A small standing head that labels a regularly appearing column or feature |
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| A photo where the background has been removed, leaving only the main subject; also called a cutout |
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| Text that wraps around a photo or artwork; also called a wraparound or runaround |
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| Teasers that run above the flag on Page One. If they're boxed (with art), they're called skyboxes or boxcars; if they only use a line of type, they're called skylines |
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| A color (or black) printed at 100 percent density |
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| An extra color ink added to a page; also called flat color |
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| Another term for a large page layout; usually refers to a photo page |
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| A photo that doesn't accompany a story, usually boxed to show it stands alone; also called wild art |
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| A special label for any regularly appearing section, page, or story; also called a header |
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| A newspaper's standardized set of rules and guidelines. Newspapers have styles for grammar, punctuation, headline codes, design principles, etc. |
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| Lines of type, often bold, used to divide text into smaller sections |
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| A special form of deck, smaller and wordier than most decks, that sums up the main points of a story |
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| A graphic or sidebar that stacks words or numbers in rows so readers can compare data |
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| A newspaper format that's roughly half the size of a broadsheet newspaper |
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| Predetermined points used to align data into vertical columns |
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| An eye-catching graphic element, on Page One or section fronts, that promotes an item inside; also called a promo |
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| One of the most common computer formats for saving scans (an abbreviation for Tagged Image File Format) |
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| A light color, often used as a background tone, made from a dot screen |
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| Stacking two headlines side by side so that they collide with each other; also called bumping or butting head |
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| An empty area, inside a story design or photo spread, that looks awkward or clumsy |
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| A slight overlapping of color plates to prevent gaps from appearing during printing |
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| A headline that uses a big, bold word or phrase and two smaller lines of deck squaring off alongside |
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| A family of fonts-for instance, the Future Family, which includes Future light, Futura Italic, Futura Bold, etc. |
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| To run a rule below a line of type |
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| Type using capital letters |
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| Short for the World Wide Web or WWW |
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| The boldness of type, based on the thickness of its characters |
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| Ads stacked along both edges of the page, forming a deep trough for stories in the middle |
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| Areas of a page free of any type or artwork |
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| A word or phrase that makes up the last line of text in a paragraph |
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| Text that's indented around a photo or artwork; also called a runaround or skew |
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| The height of a typical lowercase letter |
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