Thread
A series of messages related to the same topic in a discussion group or newsgroup, such as an original post and related follow-ups.
Typeface
A typeface contains a series of fonts . For example, the typeface Arial contains the fonts Arial, Arial Bold, Arial Italic and Arial Bold Italic.
Tabloid-sized page:
a page that measures 11" x 17" -- most often used in portrait orientation for newspapers. Not to be confused with an 11" x 17" spread, which is made up of two letter-sized pages.
Tags:
for style sheets, delimited sets of characters embedded in the text or internally coded. Tags apply to paragraphs (text terminated with a hard return -- this includes titles and headings) and indicate the function of paragraphs. The actual type specification depends on the style sheet that is associated with the tag.
Template
in page design, a file with an associated style sheet and all standing and serial elements in place on a master or base page, used for publication following the same design.
Text wrap
the spatial relationship between blocks of text and graphics, or between two blocks of text. A text wrap may be rectangular (most commonly), irregular, or arbitrary.
Thumbnails
miniature pictures sketched as first design ideas, like thinking on paper (or on screen).
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
for digital gray-scale halftones, a device-independent graphics file format. TIFF files can be used on IBM/compatible or Macintosh computers, and may be output to PostScript printers.
Tiling (tile)
printing a page layout in sections with overlapping edges so that the pieces can be pasted together.
Tombstoning
in multicolumn publications, when two or more headings in the same horizontal position on the page.
Track
in typography, to reduce space uniformly between all characters in a line. As opposed to kerning, which is the variable reduction of space between specific characters.
Type alignment
the distribution of white space in a line of type where the characters at their normal set width do not fill the entire line length exactly. Type maybe aligned left, right, centered, or right-justified.
Typeface
the set of characters created by a type designer, including uppercase and lowercase alphabetical characters, numbers, punctuation, and special characters. A single typeface contains many fonts, at different sizes and styles.
Type families
a group of typefaces of the same basic design but with different weights and proportions.
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