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DTP Terms
Desktop Publishing Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Using athletes for milk commercials is an example of this. | relevance |
| In a newspaper, showing the most important stories with bigger headlines and more text on the front page is an example of this. | proportion |
| How the readers eyes follow the elements on a page. | direction |
| Things that always stay the same, such as placement of page numbers is an example of this. | consistency |
| Differences in color on the page. | contrast |
| Small items in a page design that help it to fit together and work well for the reader. | details |
| Vertical blocks of text used in newspapers and magazines. | column |
| Where the publication is bound or folded. | gutter |
| The space between the edge of the page and the text. | margin |
| The title of an article. | headline |
| A few words that lead into a headline. | kicker |
| A sentence or paragraph following a headline that leads into the story. | deck |
| Mini headlines used throughout a story. | subheads |
| Text that explains what is going on in a picture. | caption |
| Text that appears at the top of each page in a document. | header |
| Text such as the date or page number that appears at the bottom of every page in a document. | footer |
| Words that show when a story is continued to or from another page. | jumpline |
| The title of a newspaper or magazine. | nameplate |
| Symbols or graphics that help to identify a product. | logo |
| How text is modified. | type style |
| A type style that is thick, dark text. | bold |
| Slanted text often used for quotes or book titles. | italic |
| Text that is made to stand out from the page. | shadow |
| A type style that has lines around the edges of each letter. | outline |
| Easy to read text that is used for stories in a publication. | light type |
| A type that is bold and brings attention to itself. | dark type |
| The variation of a stroke in type. | stress |
| The space between letters. | kerning |
| The space between words. | word spacing |
| The space between paragraphs in a document | paragraph spacing |
| This is used to create lists of information. | tab |
| Used to adjust the first line of a paragraph. | indent |
| The space between lines of text. | line spacing |
| Another term for line spacing. | leading |
| A font with feet. | serif |
| A font without feet | sans-serif |
| A fun font with a graphical element. | decorative |
| A font that resembles handwriting or cursive. | script |
| A font with a lot of stress and thin, flat serifs. | modern |
| A font with slanted serifs diagonal stress. | old style |
| A font used for children's stories with little stress and serifs. | slab serif |
| Space on a page that is not printed. | white space |
| A headline that does not appear at the top of the page. | drop |
| Lines in a publication. | rules |
| Art that encloses a page or a portion of the page. | border |
| A four-sided figure that encloses a page or a section of the page. | box |
| Shadows added to graphics or text to make them stand out from the page. | drop shadow |
| White text on a dark background. | reverse |
| A colored box, often with text or graphics printed on top of it. | screen |
| Pictures that are printed through the gutter or off the edges of a page. | bleed |
| An initial cap that is placed down inside of a paragraph. | dropped cap |
| An initial cap that is placed on the same line as the rest of the text in that line. | raised cap |
| An initial cap that sits to the left of a block of text. | freestanding cap |
| Text that wraps around an object or image. | runaround |
| Text or images that are stretched or look unreal. | distortion |
| Text that is not parallel to the bottom of the page. | rotated type |
| A type of spacing in which each letter takes up the same amount of text. | monospacing |
| A font such as Arial in which each letter only takes up the amount of space it needs. | proportional spacing |
| The line that all letters sit on. | baseline |
| The size of the lowercase letter a or c. | x-height |
| The part of the letter that extends above the x-height. | ascender |
| The part of a letter that extends below the baseline. | descender |
| The enclosed portion of certain letters. | counter |
| A picture of someone's head and shoulders. | mug shot |
| Cutting part of the background out of a picture. | crop |
| Trimming all of the background out of a picture, leaving only the main image. | silhouette |
| Computer-generated artwork. | clip art |
| Charts, graphs, or maps that help to deliver information. | information graphics |
| The round or elliptical part of a letter. | bowl |
| The straight main part of a letter. | stem |
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