Yearbook Terms
- Alignment: How text is arranged horizontally in a text block.
- Left-aligned text is even on the left side
- Right-aligned text is even on the right side
- Justified text is even on both the left and right sides
- AWPC font: Part of a font collection provided by Walsworth Publishing.
- Bleed bars: Gray or blue bars that surround the document.
- Bleed refers to items that extend off the page when printed.
- Body Copy: The text of the main story
- CMYK: Acronym for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, four main colors
- Colophon: Statement at the end of the book giving printing details
- Control Center: InDesign palette specific to Walsworth customers
- Cropping: Omitting parts of an original photo
- Dominant: The largest element or image on a spread
- Double-page spread: Two facing pages of a yearbook
- Endsheets: Sheets appearing at the front and back of the yearbook, may or may not have text/images
- Flat: Consists of eight pages, the front or back of a signature
- Folio: The page number in a yearbook
- Grid: A form of modular design that uses horizontal and vertical lines to specify placement of page elements
- Image Placer: A plug-in for InDesign specifically for Walsworth customers
- Image Tag: A Walsworth InDesign plug-in that allows you to number image windows
- Index: Alphabetized list of names and contents that indicates pages on which a person appears
- InDesign: A page layout program made by Adobe
- Ladder: A yearbook blueprint of the contents of each page
- Leading: The amount of vertical space between two lines of type
- Mug shot (or Mugs): Portraits in rows and columns of all the students
- Photoshop: An Adobe software program that allows digital image manipulation
- Pica: A printer’s unit of measurement, 1 pica equals 1/16 of an inch or 12 points
- Point: A printer’s unit of measurement, 12 points to a pica and 72 points to an inch
- Proof: A hard-copy printout or electronic version of pages submitted to Walsworth
- Reverse: Making an area white on a dark background
- Rule of thirds: Mentally dividing an image into horizontal and vertical thirds, like a tic-tac-toe board, to determine the center of interest (CVI)
- Section: A part of the yearbook such as “Athletic” section or “Student Life” section
- Signature: A sheet that when folded equals 16 pages
- Spread: Two facing pages that together create a layout
- Template: Previously defined pages created by a layout program.
- Theme: The idea or concept threaded throughout a yearbook.
- White space: Negative space in which there are no objects, used to move the reader’s eye around the elements on the spread