- Cathode ray tube (CRT).
- An electronic tube with a phosphorescent surface that produces a glowing image when activated by an electronic beam.
- Comprehensive layout.
- An accurate representation of a printed piece showing all type and pictures in their size and position. Comps are used to evaluate a design before producing final type and artwork.
- Consonance.
- In design, harmonious interaction between elements.
CD-Rom- An optical data storage device; initials for compactdisk read-only memory.
Chip-A small piece of silicon impregnated with impurities thatform miniaturized computer circuits.
Column grid-Nonprinting lines that define the location of columns of type.
Computer-Electronic device that performs predefined(programmed) high-speed mathematical or logical calculations.
- Cold type.
- Type that is set by means other than casting moltenmetal. A term most frequently used to indicate strike-on composition rather than photo or digital typesetting.
Cursive-Type styles that imitate handwriting, often with lettersthat do not connect.
- Clipboard.
- A computer’s “holding place,” a buffer area in memory for the last material to be cut or copied from a document. Information on the clipboard can be inserted(pasted) into documents.
- Colophon.
- Inscription, frequently placed at the end of a book, that contains facts about its production.
- Condensed.
- Letterforms whose horizontal width has been compressed.
LETTER G
Grayscale-An arbitrary scale of monochrome (black to white)intensity ranging from black and white, with a fixed number of intermediate shades of gray.
- Graphic Interface Format (GIF).
- A graphic image formatwidely used in Web sites.
- Gigabyte (GB).
- A unit of data storage equal to 1,000 megabytes.
- Gutter.
- The interval separating two facing pages in a publication.
- Grotesque.
- Name for sans-serif typefaces.
Letter J
Jaggies- The jagged “staircase” edges formed on raster-scan displays when displaying diagonal and curved lines. SeeAnti-aliasing.
- JPEG.
- An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is a bitmap format used to transmit graphic images.
Justified text-
- Copy in which all lines of a text – regardless of the words they contain – have been made exactly the same length, so that they align vertically at both the left and right margins.
- Justified setting.
- A column of type with even vertical edges on both the left and the right, achieved by adjusting interword spacing. Also called flush left, flush right.
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- Line breaks.
- The relationships of line endings in a ragged-right or ragged-left setting. Rhythmic line breaks are achieved byadjusting the length of individual lines of type.
- Line length.
- The measure of the length of a line of type,usually expressed in picas.
- Linespacing.
- The vertical distance between two lines of typemeasured from baseline to baseline. For example, “10/12” indicates 10-point type with 12 points base-to-base (that is, with 2 points of leading). See Leading, Interline spacing.
- Lining figures.
- Numerals identical in size to the capitals andaligned on the baseline: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
- Linotype.
- A machine that casts an entire line of raised typeon a single metal slug.
- Logotype.
- Two or more type characters that are combined as asign or trademark.
- Lowercase.
- The alphabet set of small letters, as opposed to capitals.
- LPM.
- Lines per minute, a unit of measure expressing the speedof a typesetting system.
- Ludlow.
- A typecasting machine that produces individual lettersfrom hand-assembled matrices.
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