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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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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.

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ

Specialty Glossaries
Graphics | Layout & Design
Prepress | Printing & Finishing
Software | Type & Fonts
Business | Paper

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