Chapter 8 vocabulary
Descender
What is a Descender, A Descender is the part of a lowercase letter that extends below the baseline, as in the letter "y."
Leading
What is Leading, Is the amount of space between lines of text.
Stock Photo
What is a Stock Photo, An image produced and sold by a professional for use by the general public.
License
What is a License, Is a legal agreement that gives permission and states detailed conditions for using a copyrighted image.
Rhythm
What is Rhythm, Is a deign principle that connects elements in a design and guides a viewer's eye from one item to the next.
Display Typeface
What is a Display Typeface, Is a typeface used to attract attention to the design of the font as well as to the words.
Typeface
What is Typeface, Is a collection of letters, numbers, and other characters created by a designer.
Clip Art
What is Clip Art, Is a picture or drawing created by someone with the intention that the artwork will be used by others.
Watermark
What is a Watermark, Is a pale image placed on the background of a page and which is often used for logos or other identification.
Pica
What is Pica, Is a printer's measurement equal to 1/6 of an inch.
Alignment
What is alignment, Is how a line of text or a paragraph is positioned in a column: flush left, flush right, centered, or justified.
Kerning
What is Kerning, Is adjusting the space between two characters to improve appearance and readability.
Screen Capture
What is Screen Capture, Is a digital raster image of visible screen content; a snapshot of a computer screen generated by the operating system or other dedicated software.
Rights Managed
What is Rights Managed, Is a type of licensing agreement for a specific, limited use of a copyrighted image.
White Space
What is White Space, Is also called negative space; the blank areas of a design that function like a design element.
Orphan
What is a Orphan, Is when the last line of a paragraph falls by itself as the first line of the next page or column.
Widow
What is a Widow, Is when the first line of a paraph falls by itself at the bottom of a page or column or when a single word or part f a word falls by itself on the last line of a paragraph.
Floating Graphic
What is Floating Graphic, Is a graphic that can be moved around on a page independently of text.
Standoff
What is a Standoff, Is the space separating an image form text in text wrapping.
Unity
En Dash
What is En Dash, Is a punctuation symbol that resembles a hyphen but is longer (normally the width of a capital N in the front and point size in which is is formatted); used in ranges of numbers, letters or dates.
Em Dash
What is Em Dash, A punctuation symbol that resembles a hyphen but is noticeably longer (normally the width of the capital letter M in the font and point size in which is is formatted); indicates a break in thought, similar to parentheses.
Text Wrapping
What is Text Wrapping, Is a feature that controls how text flows around a graphic or other object in a layout.
Inline Graphic
Master Pages
What is Master Pages, Is page designs that can be applied automatically to any page within a document.