editorial

An image, table or code block bound to its caption so the two travel together and can be referred to from the running text.

A set of evenly spaced horizontal lines that every line of text sits on, so type in adjacent columns lines up across the page.

A track wider than the reading column but narrower than the viewport, used for figures and code that need more room than prose.

An editorial composition with mixed column widths, one dominant lead story and smaller supporting items arranged around it.

Where content is cut to continue in the next fragment, a printed page, a column or a region, plus the rules that decide where the cut may fall.

A note placed in the outer margin beside the line it belongs to, rather than collected at the foot of the page.

Flowing one block of running text into several columns that fill and balance automatically, with an optional rule drawn between them.

A passage quoted from another source and set off from the running text as its own block, carrying the attribution with it.

The short summary line set between a headline and the body, larger than body text and written to sell the article.

An oversized opening letter set into the first lines of a paragraph, marking where the reading starts.

A short line of text above a heading that says what category or series the content belongs to.

Indenting the opening line of a paragraph so the start of each paragraph is visible without a blank line between them.

A paragraph whose first line starts further left than the rest, so the following lines are indented under it.

Text set so both edges of the column are flush, achieved by stretching or squeezing the spaces between words on each line.

The width of a column of text, judged in characters per line, with roughly 45 to 75 treated as the comfortable range for reading.

A first line of a paragraph left alone at the bottom of a column or page, with the rest of the paragraph carried over.

A phrase lifted out of an article and set large as a graphic element, to draw a browsing reader into the text.

The uneven edge left by unjustified text, and the thing typographers tune so that edge makes no distracting shapes down the side of a paragraph.

An oversized opening letter that sits on the first line's baseline and rises above the text, rather than sinking into it.

An accidental channel of white space running down a paragraph where word spaces on consecutive lines happen to line up.

A single word left alone on the last line of a paragraph or heading.

A short last line of a paragraph, often a single word, stranded at the top of the next column or page.

The subtractive print colour model: cyan, magenta and yellow inks plus a key black, mixing by absorbing light, with a gamut narrower than any screen's.

A style that borrows print magazine craft for the screen: a visible column grid, display type at poster scale, pull quotes, rules, and captioned images set into the text.

Rendering tone as a grid of dots that vary in size, borrowed from print and used to give flat interface art a comic or newsprint feel.

A print-inspired look of two or three flat spot colors that misregister slightly and show grain, imitating a riso duplicator.