Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Colour gamut

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The entire range of hues possible to reproduce using a specific device or process. See illustration.

Oeuvre

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The works of a writer, painter, or other artist, taken as a whole, the complete body of work; derived from "operate", work. See opus, aesthetics.

A stroke or bar connecting two letters, as a character or type combining two or more letters (eg: ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, iff); also called "conjoint" or "tied letters". See at sign, kern, notation, ...

Tint block

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A faintly coloured background or uniform shade upon which an illustration is to be produced. See illustration.

Duplex paper

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Thick paper made by pasting together two thinner sheets, usually of different colors; also called "double-faced paper" and "two-tone paper". Compare backtrack, cc, copy; see paper.

Black letter

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A heavy-faced type, in a style like that of the earliest printed books, and of early European hand lettering; also called text and Gothic. See typeface.

Near frame

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A related or similar image, such as the variant thumbnail depicted in the cover credit on the table of contents; derived from the shot sequence on a film strip. See copy, replica.