Journalism terms March 2015

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1. white spaced used in story

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Air

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typing using all caps

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All caps

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awkward layout where story banner

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armpit

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the part of a letter extending above the x-height

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Ascender

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an imaginary line that type rest on

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baseline

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a software command that allows you to raise or lower the baseline of

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baseline shift

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a page element that extends to the trimmed edge of a printed page.

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bleed

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a mixture of two colors that fade gradually

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blend

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a heavier, darker, weights of typeface

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boldface

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a type of dingbat usually a big dot used to highlight

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bullet

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art or type aligned symmetrically

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centered

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a layout that tries to use all the space available, it may be heavy in appearance. little white space

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conservative layout

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the part of a letter extending below the baseline

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Descender

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decorative type characters, used for emphasis or effect

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Dingbats

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a thin shadow effect to added effect to characters in a headline

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Drop shadow

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a small, detailed page diagram showing where all elements go, also the process of drawing a layout

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dummy

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characters wider than the standard set width

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expanded/extended type

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all the difference weights and styles of one typeface

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family

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elements aligned left

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flush left

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elements aligned right

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flush right

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all the characters in one size weight

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font

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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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grid

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newspaper design technique in which the general movement on the page is from side to side

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horizontal layout

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breaking a word with a hyphen at the end of a line

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hyphenation

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a part of a column set in a narrower width. the first line of a paragraph

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indent

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a large capital letter set at the beginning of a paragraph for decoration

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initial cap/ drop cap

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type that slants to the right

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Italic

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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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Justification

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tightening the spacing between letters

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Kerning

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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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Layout

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the ease with which type characters can be read

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Legibility

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the amount of air between characters in a word

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Letter spacing

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designing the page to leave areas of white space for emphasis. It may feature one large, dominant photograph on each pair facing pages

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liberal layout

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small characters of type

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lower case

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a design system that views a page as a stack of rectangles (anything that is square)

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modular layout

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short word or phrase that’s carried over to a new column or page; also called a widow

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orphan/widow

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a standard unit of measure in newspapers. There are 6 picas in one inch 1 2 points in one pica

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Pica

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the smallest dot you can draw on a computer screen

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Pixel

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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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point

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picture chopped in half, fills only hair of column

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pork chop

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advertisement stacked up one side of a page, wide at the base but progressively smaller near the top

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pyramid

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upright type as opposed to slanted type also called normal or regular

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Roman

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text the wrap around a photo or artwork or skew

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runaround

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type without serifs,

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San serif

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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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serif

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coding formats (size, leading, color, etc) that can be applied instantly to selected text in desktop publishing programs

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style sheets

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predetermined points used to align text or numbers into vertical columns

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tab stops

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a light color , often used as a background tone, made from a dot screen

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tint

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an empty area, inside a story or photo spread that looks awkward or clumsy

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trapped white space

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a family of fonts also called a family

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typeface

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means underlined to run a line of type

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underscore

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type using capital letters

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uppercase

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the boldness of type, based on the thickness of its characters

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weight

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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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well

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areas of a page free of any any type or network

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white space