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Page Layout and Design Glossary
Learn the components of a page and the process of design and page layout through definitions, examples, and tutorials. Take a look at the terminology of page layout and graphic design, especially as it applies to desktop publishing. Get definitions, examples, and tutorials.
All the Glossaries: Full Glossary | Graphics | Prepress | Printing & Finishing | Software | Type & Fonts | Business | Paper
All the Glossaries: Full Glossary | Graphics | Prepress | Printing & Finishing | Software | Type & Fonts | Business | Paper
AA
AAs or Author's Alterations are changes made to projects...
Acknowledgment
The acknowledgment is part of a book's front matter...
Additive Primaries
Colors that add up to white light...
Adjacent Caps
A big letter off to the side...
Adjacent Colors
Color wheel neighbors...
Agate
A standard unit of measurement found primarily in newspaper publishing...
Agate Line
Still used as a unit of measure in advertising space in some newsletters...
Alignment
A principle of design...
Alley
page layout and text composition term
Artwork
In desktop publishing artwork is the pictures but sometimes it's the text too when we're talking about camera-ready artwork.
Asymmetrical
principle of design - balance
Balance
principle of design
Bleed
When any image or element on a page touches the edge of the page leaving no margin...
Bleed
layout and printing term
Bleed Allowance
layout and print term
Blurb
One or more lines of text found between the headline and the body of the article...
Body Copy
The main text found in publications we read...
Border
page layout component
Bottom Out
A type of text alignment...
Box (Border)
page layout component
Brainstorming
Thinking up ways to do things...
Busy
Too much can be too busy...
Byline
page layout element
Call Out
graphics and page layout component
Caption
graphics and page layout component
Center Marks
layout and printing term
Clashing Colors
Opposites that attract attention...
Clipping Paths
graphics and page layout term
Collaterals
Support materials for sales, marketing, and promotion...
Colophon
It's the technical specs of a book or magazine...
Column Dividers (Downrules)
layout term
Column Guides
page layout tool
Comp, Composite, Comprehensive
layout and printing term
Consistency
Uniform use of fonts, colors, alignment, and more...
Continuation Head
The headline after the jump...
Complementary Colors
Colors that complete one another...
Computer Crafting (Creative Printing)
desktop publishing term
Contrast
One of the principles of design...
Contrasting Colors
Colors that might clash or compliment...
Corner Marks (Crop Marks)
layout and printing term
Coupon
Voucher for saving money...
Creative Printing
desktop publishing term
Credit Line (Byline)
page layout element
Creep
layout and printing term
Creep Allowance
layout and printing term
Crop Marks
layout and printing term
Crop, Cropping
layout and printing term
Desktop Publisher
Someone who does desktop publishing...
Deck
page layout component
Desktop Publishing
the process of page layout
Dropped Caps
Big letters dropped into a hole in a paragraph of text...
Downrule
layout and graphics term
DTP (Desktop Publishing)
the process of page layout
Dummy Text (Lorem Ipsum)
layout and type term
End Sign
page layout component
Emphasis
Creating a focal point...
Flush
A type of alignment...
FPO - For Position Only
layout and printing term
Frame (Border)
page layout component
Graphic Design
the process of design
Gray Text
It's not just a color...
Greeking
layout and type term
Guides
page layout tool
Gutter
page layout and text composition term
Hanging Punctuation
Putting punctuation outside the text alignment...
Initial Caps
The first letter in a paragraph, enhanced...
Kicker
Text that kicks you into noticing it...
Jumpline
Go here, you came from there...
Lorem Ipsum
layout and type term
Magnification (Zoom)
page layout tool
Margin Guides
Dotted lines that represent the page margins of a document...
Margins
Usually empty space around the edges of the page...
Master Guides
Non-printing guides on master pages...
Masthead
page layout component
Mood Board
Prior to thumbnails, part of the design process...
Mug Shots
Pictures of people focusing on the head...
Nameplate
page layout component
Page Layout
Doing desktop publishing...
Pica
Unit of measurement sometimes used in page layout...
Signposting
Something to get your attention...
Placeholder Text (Lorem Ipsum)
layout and type term
Book Jacket
Wraps around a book...
Pull-Quote
A specially formatted quote, pulled from a story...
Raised Caps
A bigger letter that rises up above the text (not dropped into it)...
Recto
page layout term
Repetition
Repeat a font style, a color, a placement...
Rule
It's a graphic divider...
Rule of Thumb
Better than a guess...
Ruler Guides
Non-printing guidelines that assist in precise placement of elements...
Standing Elements
Elements that appear on all pages...
Symmetrical
Visually the same side to side or top to bottom...
Template
page layout
Text Composition
typography and page layout
Text Feathering
Forcing bottom alignment...
Tombstoning
Heads that line up horizontally in a multi-column layout...
Thumbnail
Small preview versions of images, sketches...
Trim (Crop)
graphics and layout and printing term
Type Composition (Text Composition)
typography and page layout
Verso
page layout term
Vertical Justification
Aligning text...
Web Design
design and electronic publishing term
White Space
White space is the absence of text and graphics...
Zoom
page layout tool