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Glossary Words - S
From Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Guide
Just a few of the interesting terms you'll encounter on this page: Signature, Signposting, Slug, Spline, and Style guide. For these and all the S words, you'll see an oh-so-brief description on this page but for more details go to the linked full page for each term (and sometimes pictures).
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Just a few of the interesting terms you'll encounter on this page: Signature, Signposting, Slug, Spline, and Style guide. For these and all the S words, you'll see an oh-so-brief description on this page but for more details go to the linked full page for each term (and sometimes pictures).
# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | (Q) X Y Z
Specialty Glossaries: Graphics | Layout & Design | Prepress | Printing & Finishing | Software | Type & Fonts | Business | Paper
Saddle-Stitched
Folded, nested pages stitched or stapled down the spine...
Safety Paper
Paper that helps deter alterations...
Sans Serif
Type without serifs...
Script
Based on handwriting...
Separations
Indicates where each color of ink goes...
Serif
Fonts that have little extra strokes...
Setoff
Unintentional image transfer...
Sheet-fed Press
Not like the big web presses for newspapers...
Signature
A section of a book or a part of an ad...
Signposting
Something to get your attention...
Single Quotes
Quoted once? No. A single mark? Not exactly. These quotation marks come in pairs.
Slug
Extra information about a file...
Slab Serif
Clarendon, Rockwell, and Courier are examples...
Small Caps
Little capitals are small caps...
Soft Hyphen
Automatic hyphenation...
SOHO
A type of small business...
Solid Ink
Printing that uses wax-like sticks of ink...
Speech Bubble
Graphic way of showing what someone is saying...
SPI
Resolution of an image...
Spiral Binding
Binding that connects pages with a coil of plastic or wire...
Spiral Folds
Fold a panel in, in again, and again...
Spline
That bit of the S that connects the top and the bottom curves...
Spot Color
A specially mixed ink using in printing...
Spot Varnish
A clear coating in just a spot or two...
Spread
Closing color gaps or a pair of pages...
Spur
Small bit at the end of certain curved letters such as S...
Standing Elements
Elements that appear on all pages...
Star (Asterisk)
Shift+8...
Stat
An inexpensive type of proof used for checking general appearance...
Stem
The main (usually) vertical stroke(s) of some letters like D or M...
Stroke
The main diagonal part of some letters such as N...
Style Guide
How you cross your t's, dot your i's, and maybe even the font you use...
Substance (Basis Weight)
Weight of a ream of paper at a certain standard size...
Subtractive Primaries
Mix a couple of additive primaries to get subtractive ones... used in color printing.
Supercalendered Paper
Very, very smooth paper...
Symmetrical
Visually the same side to side or top to bottom...
Desktop Publishing Glossary Index
There's more to the alphabet than S. Check out the great words that start with A or B or even Z.
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Prepress | Printing & Finishing
Software | Type & Fonts
Business | Paper