Yearbook Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Exactly what the person said; appears inside quotation marks
  2. 5. Formal student photos with names and other identifying information listed to the side of the row of photos
  3. 10. Refers to specific blends of CMYK created by Walsworth that can be used on any four-color page in your book
  4. 15. More decorative typefaces usually used for headlines
  5. 17. About three to four sentences that describe a photo; also called a cutline
  6. 18. First one or few sentences of an article; should grab the reader’s attention, give the story direction and set the tone
  7. 19. Imprint of a name and icons on a yearbook cover using hot foil
  8. 20. A small headline used to divide copy or a small headline or deck that appears below the main headline; also known as a secondary headline
  9. 23. Copy that reflects a yearbook’s theme, such as the title and section titles
  10. 26. A pre-mixed ink used to add a single color to a page
  11. 29. A yearbook blueprint that helps you plan your book by listing the contents of each page
  12. 32. The number of halftone dots in an inch, used to measure the amount of resolution of a digital image
  13. 35. A single sheet of paper that, when folded and trimmed, will produce 16 consecutive pages
  14. 41. A raised service on a cover or endsheets, creating by a die.
  15. 42. The white space around the spread; copy and photos must stop at the edge of the margins unless photos bleed off the page
  16. 44. The vertical space between the inside margins of facing pages
  17. 45. The paragraph that tells the reader what the story is about and offers background information as needed for clarity; it can be one paragraph or several
  18. 47. The amount of vertical space between two lines of type
  19. 48. Pages already set up in a design program, either by Walsworth or a staff’s designers, to be modified and saved by designers without affecting the original template
  20. 49. Acronym for Red, Green and Blue, the three colors used in video display, for example, a computer monitor
  21. 50. Advertisement placed by parents or students rather than businesses
  22. 51. Short info to present to reader like Q & A, Listing, Quote; see packages
  23. 52. The amount of horizontal space between two characters
  24. 53. Acronym for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, the four colors used in printing full color
  25. 57. Eliminating unwanted elements in a photo, either using the camera’s viewfinder before the image is shot or using photography software afterward
  26. 58. Body copy that tells the story
  27. 61. Plastic tags personalized with names and icons of school sports, activities and interests and placed on books or other possessions; can be used for fundraising
  28. 63. A printer’s unit of measurement used primarily in typesetting; one pica equals 1/6 of an inch, or 12 points
  29. 65. Pages in the yearbook that verbally explain the theme and the theme graphics continue
  30. 66. Items in a single color (black) as opposed to full color
  31. 69. Two facing pages designed as one unit
  32. 71. The words that appear in a book, a newspaper, a website or a printed page
  33. 74. A set of established rules governing the production of the book so that design, fonts, colors, copy, theme, etc., will be consistent throughout the book
  34. 76. All variations of a typeface in all its weights and point sizes; for example, Helvetica, Helvetica Italic, Helvetica Bold, Helvetica Bold Italic
  35. 77. Horizontal line, actual or implied, running across a spread above or below the exact center to create unity
  36. 79. An exclusive legal right to an originator of an item, such as a published work, photo, music or lyrics; copyrighted material cannot be used without permission
  37. 80. Page one of the yearbook, containing the title, volume number, year, school name, mailing address, telephone number and school enrollment, or other significant information
  38. 81. The outside of the yearbook
  39. 83. A self-contained package of a pre-determined size, such as a top 10 list, a quiz, a photo cluster, a quote or other stand-alone coverage
  40. 84. An area of white space that appears between elements on a spread; not a desirable element of design because it can separate elements and draw attention to itself
Down
  1. 1. A photo or an element that commands the reader’s attention on a spread by size or importance
  2. 3. The list of the book’s section and page numbers where sections begin
  3. 4. Page or pages at the end of the yearbook that verbally wraps up the book; contains theme elements
  4. 6. A one pica spacing is another name for this.
  5. 7. Bars, usually blue, found at the edges of Walsworth’s templates and Designer Series layouts to help you determine how far to extend a bleeding element off the page. You should always draw bleeding elements to the outside edge of the bleed bar
  6. 8. color (CMYK), A color derived by printing overlapping dots of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black; when combined, the eye merges the colors to simulate a single color; thousands of colors can be simulated by mixing percentages of the four process inks
  7. 9. A line giving credit to the writer, photographer or designer for their story, photo or layout
  8. 11. Topics featured in the yearbook and how they are covered
  9. 12. the heavy paper that holds the cover to the pages.
  10. 13. Typefaces that can be used for body copy and captions; body fonts are usually plainer, less decorative and smaller than display fonts, 12 point or less
  11. 14. Eight pages of a signature/one side of sheet of paper printed, alternating spreads.
  12. 16. An additional section of the yearbook that is printed separately from the book itself; often printed for spring-delivered books to cover subjects such as spring sports and graduation, which happen after the school’s final deadline
  13. 21. Two facing pages designed as one unit; also called double page spread or DPS
  14. 22. Marks used by editors to explain what changes need to be made to a story; also known as proofreading marks
  15. 24. Cut-out background, a term for when the background is deleted from the main subject of the photo
  16. 25. Formula for writing captions – the Attention Getter is a mini headline; Basic Information is the first sentence containing the 5 Ws and H and written in present tense; Complementary Information is additional information not seen in the photo written in past tense; Direct Quote is a quote from someone in the photo
  17. 27. An unposed photo showing action
  18. 28. Words from a story that are pulled and printed in a larger point size to create a graphic element; also called pulled quote
  19. 30. A logo or design graphics that reflect the theme and carry it across the theme pages; a visual element can be a non-verbal theme
  20. 31. In digital imaging, refers to the number of pixels or dots that make up an image; an image’s resolution must be high enough to reproduce well on the printed page
  21. 32. Pages in a yearbook that separate one section from another and provide information about the section’s content; also known as division pages or section divider pages
  22. 33. Idea or concept threaded throughout a yearbook, unifying its parts
  23. 34. Purposefully directing focus to specific elements before others within a design in order to create an order of importance
  24. 36. The outside frame of a double page spread.
  25. 37. The first letter of a paragraph enlarged to create a graphic effect
  26. 38. Two colors directly across from one another on a color wheel, such as blue and orange, yellow and purple, red and green
  27. 39. A basic unit of digital imaging; individual dots (pixels) make up the image on the screen
  28. 40. A set of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and symbols that share a unified design called a typeface; a group of related typefaces is called a type family
  29. 43. Type without finishing strokes or “feet”
  30. 46. Typefaces that have small additional finishing cross strokes placed at the end of the main strokes of a letter
  31. 54. Formal student photos with names and other identifying information under them
  32. 55. The amount of horizontal space between two characters
  33. 56. Type set in larger point size, usually 14 points or higher, and placed above the story to attract the reader’s attention and provide information about a story’s or a spread’s content
  34. 59. Printed letters or characters
  35. 60. The text of the main story
  36. 62. An alphabetized list of names and contents that indicates the pages on which each person or item is referenced, usually located in the back of the yearbook
  37. 64. Using type elements as design for headlines, copy, captions and graphics to project a desired image
  38. 67. Information placed at the back of the book containing facts about the production of the book such as printer, copies ordered, type and paper specifications and general acknowledgements
  39. 68. Backbone of a book, the narrow portion of a cover between the front and back
  40. 70. one seventy-second of an inch and it measure copy size.
  41. 72. Absence of elements in an area on a spread
  42. 73. Page number on a yearbook spread; accompanying words or phrases identifying the content are called folio tabs
  43. 75. Refers to the size of the pages in your yearbook; Walsworth offers three book sizes: 7 (page measurement of 7 3⁄4 inches x 10 1⁄2 inches), 8 (8 1⁄2 x 11) and 9 (9 x 12)
  44. 76. All type of a single design, such as Helvetica or Times
  45. 78. A hard-copy printout or electronic version of a file used to check what will be printed in your book.
  46. 82. Extension of images, graphics or backgrounds beyond the trim marks on the edges of a page, leaving no white margin