Yearbook Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Two facing pages designed as one unit; also called double page spread or DPS
- 5. About three to four sentences that describe a photo; also called a cutline
- 6. Acronym for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, the four colors used in printing full color
- 8. Printed letters or characters
- 9. Extension of images, graphics or backgrounds beyond the trim marks on the edges of a page, leaving no white margin
- 12. 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. Eliminating unwanted elements in a photo, either using the camera’s viewfinder before the image is shot or using photography software afterward
- 17. Horizontal line, actual or implied, running across a spread above or below the exact center to create unity
- 18. space Absence of elements in an area on a spread
- 19. Page number on a yearbook spread; accompanying words or phrases identifying the content are called folio tabs
- 20. 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
- 24. Purposefully directing focus to specific elements before others within a design in order to create an order of importance
- 26. 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
- 27. The vertical space between the inside margins of facing pages
- 30. Idea or concept threaded throughout a yearbook, unifying its parts
- 33. A yearbook blueprint that helps you plan your book by listing the contents of each page
- 34. 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
- 36. The words that appear in a book, a newspaper, a website or a printed page
- 38. Formal student photos with names and other identifying information listed to the side of the row of photos
- 39. 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
Down
- 1. 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
- 3. A photo or an element that commands the reader’s attention on a spread by size or importance
- 4. Two facing pages designed as one unit
- 5. The text of the main story
- 7. 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
- 10. All type of a single design, such as Helvetica or Times
- 11. Page or pages at the end of the yearbook that verbally wraps up the book; contains theme elements
- 13. The outside of the yearbook
- 14. A hard-copy printout or electronic version of a file used to check what will be printed in your book.
- 15. Two colors directly across from one another on a color wheel, such as blue and orange, yellow and purple, red and green
- 16. 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
- 21. Page one of the yearbook, containing the title, volume number, year, school name, mailing address, telephone number and school enrollment, or other significant information
- 22. A line giving credit to the writer, photographer or designer for their story, photo or layout
- 23. Exactly what the person said; appears inside quotation marks
- 25. Acronym for Red, Green and Blue, the three colors used in video display, for example, a computer monitor
- 28. Using type elements as design for headlines, copy, captions and graphics to project a desired image
- 29. Body copy that tells the story
- 31. 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
- 32. The white space around the spread; copy and photos must stop at the edge of the margins unless photos bleed off the page
- 35. Backbone of a book, the narrow portion of a cover between the front and back
- 36. An unposed photo showing action
- 37. A basic unit of digital imaging; individual dots (pixels) make up the image on the screen