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RMS Yearbook
RMS Yearbook Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Advisor | Mrs. Klein is the 2013 Yearbook Advisor. |
| Alignment | The placement of text or graphics on a line (right, left, center, or justified). |
| Attribution | Giving credit in the text to the speaker - a quote with the speaker named. |
| Bird's eye view | A picture that is taken from an angle above the subject. |
| Bleed | A print effect in which layout, type, or pictures appear to run off the edge of a page. |
| Byline | The tagline under a heading or title of a story that says "By Joseph Smith" for example. |
| Caption | The text that appears to describe or add to a photo. |
| Colophon | The last page of the book that shows all the mechanical details of the year's book such as fonts used, paper weight, publisher, etc. |
| Copy | Text or writing, including stories, features, captions, in a yearbook. |
| Division page | any of the theme/concept pages introducing each new section of the book, and relating each back to the main theme/concept with photos, captions, and detailed copy. |
| Dominant photo | This is the largest photo on the page, emphasizing the theme of the page. |
| Double-Page Spread | Two pages in a yearbook which face each other. |
| DPI | Dots per inch; the # of dots per square inch in an image; also called resolution. |
| Endsheet | Heavy sheet of paper that attaches the book to its cover. There is an endsheet in both the front and back of the book. |
| External spacing | The white space that is around the margins of the book's pages. |
| Eyeline | formed by arranging photos, type, or other page elements to form an even band of white space across the two facing pages. It is used to visually link a spread. |
| Flat | 8 pages, not necessarily consecutive, of a yearbook in layout form. One side of a publisher's printed giant sheet that equals 8 pages of the book. |
| Folio | Page number and spread identification, usually positioned in the bottom corner of the page. |
| Font | A family of alphabetic characters, numbers, punctuation marks and other symbols that share a consistent design; often used synonymously with typeface. |
| Gutter | The white space between the pages that attach to the spine. |
| Headline | A line of large type used to tell the reader what is to follow, introducing the topic and main point of interest of the copy |
| Internal spacing | The white space between the elements on the page (photos, text boxes, graphics). |
| Ladder | The overall map which shows the placement of every layout in the yearbook. |
| Life Touch Publishing | The business which prints your yearbook. |
| Mug shot | Portrait, a photo of a person’s head and shoulder area only. |
| Natural Spread | Only two pages in a flat that are printed side-by-side on the press sheet. |
| Point size | The measurement, or size of a font (text); each point is approximately 1/72 of an inch. |
| PPI | Pixels per inch; the # of pixels per square inch in an image; also called resolution. |
| Sans serif | A font that does not have end strokes or feet; used mainly for headlines and large-sized text. |
| Section | Portion of a document that is separated from the rest of the document by section breaks. In the yearbook it can include "mugshots" and "advertising". |
| Serif | Fonts that have a tail or stroke (sometimes known as "feet") at the end of some characters. |
| Sidebar | A small feature story which complements the main story on a spread. |
| Signature | 16 consecutive pages of a yearbook in layout form. Two sides of a publisher's printed giant sheet that equals 16 pages of the book. |
| Spine | This is the backbone of the book and has information such as the title, school name, and volume number. |
| Theme | The unifying idea that ties all pages of the yearbook together. |
| Title page | the opening page of a book bearing the book title, year of publication, school name, and school location. |
| White space | Areas on a page with no text or graphics; designed to provide a visual break and to give other elements on the page a greater impact; also known as negative space. |
| Worm's eye view | A picture that is taken from an angle below the subject. |