Basic definitions that an editorial designer should know (part II)

Next I want to make a small list of those essential terms a editorial designer you must know for your work (part II):

Page height: Distance between the upper limit of the ascending stroke of the letter from the first line to the last. é is called the "box height."

Raise: Arrangement of the sheets -according to their signatures- of a printed work to form each copy before binding.

Apocryphal: Book or document of which the authenticity of the author who signs it is doubted.

Apostille: Note placed in the margin of the page

Bicolor: Printing in two colors or inks.

Typographic white: Composition material shorter than the characters, which correspond to the non-printed areas: spaces, interlines, squares, etc ...

Coil: Roll of paper that is used in printing on rotary machines.

Nod: Embroidered cord on a ribbon that is placed on the foot and the head of the spine.

Calles: Coincidence of spaces between words in several lines of the same paragraph, forming white rivers in the general appearance of the paragraph. The streets should be avoided.

Chancellor: Cursive script from the XNUMXth century that gave rise to the bastard Spanish typeface.

Cutting: External part of a print or a book that must be cut. It is the opposite part of the spine in any book.

Registration cross: Sign made up of two crossed lines and a circle in its center, which serve as a reference for the successive printing of the different color plates.

Cover: paper, cardboard, cloth or other material, used to protect and hold a group of sheets together.

Thread counter: Magnifying lens used for detailed control of the screen, rosette, and necessary print details.

Unlinear: Zoom in on lines of text by reducing the space between them.

drop down: Parallel Folded Booklet

Double tone: Reinforcement color for better quality when printing a monochrome illustration.

frontispiece: Page or sheet facing or preceding the cover of a book.

image: cleantumundo


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