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Typography Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Impression | one instance of the meeting of a printing surface and the material being printed |
| registration | the correct positioning of an image especially when printing one color on another |
| broadside | The term used to indicate work printed on one of a large sheet of paper |
| compsition | In typography, the assembly of typographic elements, such as words and paragraphs, into pages ready for printing |
| engraving | Printing method using a plate, also called a die, with an image cut into its surface |
| leading | Amount of space between lines of type |
| letterpress | a relief printing process in which a raised image is inked to produce an impression; the impression is then transferred by placing paper against image and applying pressure. |
| lithography | Method of printing using plates whose image areas attract ink and whose nonimage areas repel ink. Nonimage areas may be coated with water to repel the oily ink or may have a surface, such as silicon, that repels ink. |
| pica | A unit of measure in the printing industry. |
| relief printing | Printing method whose image carriers are surfaces with two levels having inked areas higher than non-inked areas. |
| justify | the alignment of text along a margin or both margins. This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point. |
| kerning | the adjustment of spacing between certain letter pairs, A and V for example, to obtain a more pleasing appearance. |
| sans serif | a typeface that has no serifs |
| serif | small strokes at the end of main stroke of the character |
| furniture | the wooden (or occasionally metal or resin-composite) blocks that surround your form or plate base to hold it in place |
| platen job press | a small printing press in which a platen presses the paper against a form secured to an opposed vertical flat bed |
| rotary press | Printing press which passes the substrate between two rotating cylinders when making an impression |
| woodblock printing | art of transferring designs from a chiseled 'block' |
| sand casting | a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material |
| diamond sutra | Buddhist text produced in China; earliest printed book in existence |
| jikji | earliest printed book with moveable metal type; produced in Korea, 1377 |
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