Yearbook Vocabulary

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  1. 2. A hard-copy printout or electronic version of a file used to check what will be printed in your book.
  2. 3. family: All variations of a typeface in all its weights and point sizes; for example, Helvetica, Helvetica Italic, Helvetica Bold, Helvetica Bold Italic
  3. 5. Backbone of a book, the narrow portion of a cover between the front and back
  4. 6. Page or pages at the end of the yearbook that verbally wraps up the book; contains theme elements
  5. 9. The outside of the yearbook
  6. 14. colors: Two colors directly across from one another on a color wheel, such as blue and orange, yellow and purple, red and green
  7. 16. Guide: 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
  8. 18. Topics featured in the yearbook and how they are covered
  9. 20. Printed letters or characters
  10. 21. Eliminating unwanted elements in a photo
  11. 23. 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
  12. 25. Typefaces that have small additional finishing cross strokes placed at the end of the main strokes of a letter
  13. 26. Extension of images, graphics or backgrounds beyond the trim marks on the edges of a page, leaving no white margin
  14. 29. Idea or concept threaded throughout a yearbook, unifying its parts
  15. 30. Formal student photos with names and other identifying information listed to the side of the row of photos
  16. 31. 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
  17. 32. Formula: 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
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  1. 1. Pages in the yearbook that verbally explain the theme and the theme graphics continue
  2. 4. spreads (DPS): Two facing pages designed as one unit
  3. 7. A small headline used to divide or that appears below the main headline; also known as a secondary headline
  4. 8. Color: Refers to specific blends of CMYK created by Walsworth that can be used on any four-color page in your book
  5. 10. About three to four sentences that describe a photo
  6. 11. 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
  7. 12. page: Page one of the yearbook, containing the title, volume number, year, school name, mailing address, telephone number and school enrollment, or other significant information
  8. 13. serif: Type without finishing strokes or “feet”
  9. 14. Cut-out background, a term for when the background is deleted from the main subject of the photo
  10. 15. fonts: Typefaces that can be used for body copy and captions; usually plainer, less decorative and smaller than display fonts, 12 point or less
  11. 17. A yearbook blueprint that helps you plan your book by listing the contents of each page
  12. 19. copy: The text of the main story
  13. 21. An unposed photo showing action
  14. 22. Two facing pages designed as one unit; also called double page spread or DPS
  15. 23. Body copy that tells the story
  16. 24. The vertical space between the inside margins of facing pages
  17. 26. bars: 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
  18. 27. quote: Exactly what the person said; appears inside quotation marks
  19. 28. space: Absence of elements in an area on a spread