Majuscule: a capital letter.
Miniscule: a lowercase letter.
Masthead: the credit box, headed
by the publication name, that lists sponsors,
editors, writers, designers, illustrators, photographers,
and others, along with the publication office
address, subscription and advertising information,
etc.
Measure: (noun) in typography,
the length of a line, even if the line is not
filled with characters (such as a centered or
partial line), designated in picas. When the
text is set in columns, the line length is called
'column measure.'
Mezzotint: for a halftone, a
special screen that produces connected, dusty-looking
dots.
Moiré patterns: (pronounced "mo-ray")
irregular plaid-like patterns that occur when
a bit-mapped image is reduced, enlarged, displayed,
or printed at a resolution different from the
resolution of the original.
Monospaced type: a (typewriter)
typeface in which the amount of horizontal space
taken up by each character is the same.
N
Name Server: See DNS
Navigate: 1. to move on, over,
or through (water, air, land, or cyberspace)
in a ship, aircraft, vehicle, or computer input
device. 2. to direct or manage (a ship, aircraft,
vehicle, agent, or avatar) on its course. 3. to ascertain or plot and control the course or
position of (a agent, avatar etc.) (Webster's,
p 1283).
Navigation (Spatial Navigation):
The ability to move through virtual landscapes
(cyberspace). Orienting ourselves by landmarks,
mapping a space mentally to match our experience,
and admiring the juxtapositions and changes in
perspective that derive from moving through an
intricate environment (Murray, p 129).
Negative space: in design,
the space where the figure isn't -- in artwork,
usually the background; in a publication, the
parts of the page not occupied by type or graphics.
Nested stories: in newsletter/magazine
layout, stories run in multiple columns at different
column depths.
O
Objected-oriented (mode): the
Draw graphics mode. A set of algorithms describe
graphic form in abstract geometrical terms, as
object primitives, the most fundamental shapes
from which all other shapes are made: lines,
curves, and solid or patterned areas.
Oblique type: characters that
are slanted to the right; sans
serif typefaces often have oblique rather than true italics,
which are a separate font.
Offset printing: for high-volume
reproduction -- utilizes three rotating drums:
a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, and an
impression cylinder. The printing plate is wrapped
around the plate cylinder, inked and dampened.
The plate image is transferred, or offset, onto
the blanket cylinder. Paper passes between the
blanket cylinder and the impression cylinder,
and the image is transferred onto the paper.
Orphan: in a page layout, the
first line of a paragraph separated from the
rest of the paragraph by a column or page break.
Headings without enough type under them may be
considered as orphans; there should be as much
type below the heading as the height of the heading
itself, including white
space.
Outline: The outline is the outer edge of text
or a graphic. |
