Yearbook Terminology

2. Usually 3-5 paragraphs, this tells about the event and gives more insight and detail than a caption.
4. Empty space around content, often separating or framing topics.
7. This section provides a record of who is in the book and where the reader can find them.
9. The marking of photos with names of individuals who appear in the photos.
10. Includes information about how the book was created.
14. A method of dividing the photograph into thirds vertically and horizontally, creating four intersection points.
16. Accompanies the primary headline.
17. The middle of a two-page spread.
19. Two facing pages, abbreviated 'DPS'.
21. Lines, tints, screens, and textures that help emphasize specific areas within designs.
24. Spreads that indicate new sections and provide continuity with the theme.
25. Our 2024-25 yearbook theme.

1. The company that prints and publishes your yearbook.
3. This spread is at the beginning of the book and introduces your theme.
5. Page-by-page planner that helps organize the content of the book.
6. The largest photo on the spread, must be a strong emotional or action shot to catch the attention of the audience.
8. A line (or lines) of large type used to introduce the most important fact to the reader.
11. This spread is at the back of the book and finishes the story of the year and brings the book closure.
12. When the picture extends past the edge of the page.
13. A central idea or concept that sets the tone for telling the story of the year.
15. This section highlights activities that take place in the lives of students in and outside of school.
16. A 16-page section of pages.
18. When your book is closed, the edge of the book that binds the pages together.
20. Tells the reader more about the photo than they can simply see.
22. The heavy paper between the cover and the first and last pages is used to hold the signatures in the yearbook.
23. An unposed photo.