Callout: an explanatory label
for an illustration, often drawn with a leader
line pointing to a part of the illustration.
Camera-ready copy: final publication
material that is ready to be made into a negative
for a printing plate. May be a computer file
or actual print and images on a board.
Cap height: in typography, the
distance from the baseline to the top of the capital
letters.
Caption: an identification (title)
for an illustration, usually a brief phrase. The
caption should also support the other content.
CGI: Common Gateway Interface.
A computer program or script residing on a web
server, following the standards of HTTP, that serves
as an interface between the server and the web
browser.
Character: any letter, figure,
punctuation, symbol or space.
Clip art: ready-made artwork
sold or distributed for clipping and pasting into
publications. Available in hard-copy books, and
in electronic form, as files on disk.
Color separation: the process
of creating separate negatives and plates for
each color of ink (cyan, magenta, yellow, and
black) that will be used in the publication. See
also Process
Color Separation.
Color spacing: the addition of
spaces to congested areas of words or word spacing
to achieve a more pleasing appearance after the
line has been set normally.
Column gutter: the space between
columns of type.
Comprehensive layout (comp):
a blueprint of the publication, showing exactly
how the type will be set and positioned, and the
treatment, sizing, and placement of illustrations
on the page.
Condensed font: a font in
which the set-widths of the characters is narrower
than in the standard typeface. (Note: not the
inter-character space -- that is accomplished
through tracking).
Continuous tone: artwork that
contains gradations of gray, as opposed to black-and-white
line art. Photographs and some drawings, like charcoal
or watercolor, require treatment as continuous-tone
art.
Copy: generally refers to text
-- typewritten pages, word-processing files, typeset
galleys or pages -- although sometimes refers to
all source materials (text and graphics) used in
a publication.
Copyfitting: the fitting of a
variable amount of copy within a specific and fixed
amount of space.
Counter: in typography, an enclosed
area within a letter, in uppercase, lowercase and
numeric letterforms.
Crop marks: on a mechanical,
horizontal and vertical lines that indicate the
edge of the printed piece.
Cropping: for artwork, cutting
out the extraneous parts of an image, usually a
photograph.
Cutlines: explanatory text, usually
full sentences, that provides information about
illustrations. Cutlines are sometimes called captions or legends; not to be confused with title-captions,
which are headings for the illustration, or key-legends,
which are part of the artwork. |
