Family |
The set of all sizes and styles of a single typeface; the complete character set of a font. The various members share a common design, but differ as to character width, weight, and posture (i.e., roman vs. italic). Typically, a computer family unit includes roman (or regular), italic, bold, and bold italic-in all sizes. See font. |
Feature story |
A newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Cf. follow-up (def. 3b),"hard news, news story." |
FilePrimer |
Tera software designed for digital documents production flow and management. FP guides and helps the pre-press operators through a monitored and optimized workflow; this is possible thanks to the quick managing and search of previously archived files, and to a detailed control of the history of each file |
Fill |
A function that applies a color to the interior of a drawn object. |
Filler |
(GN4) A dynamic horizontal white space, produced by GNML tag >fill..<; also short informational stories or advertisements, usually timeless, used to fill small spaces where needed |
First-day story |
A story published for the first time and dealing with something that has just happened, as distinguished from a "follow-up" story |
First reference |
The first time someone is mentioned in an article, and generally should have their full name. |
Fist |
See index. |
Five W's |
Who? what? when? where? why? the questions usually answered in the lead of a news story |
Flag |
The printed title (i.e., name and logo) of a newspaper at the top of the front page |
Flared end sans serif |
See typeface. |
Flash |
The first brief bulletin from a press association with information about an important news event |
Fleuron |
A typographical ornament, often used to mark the start of paragraphs. |
Floating accent |
An accent mark which is set separately from the main character and is then placed either over or under it. |
Flip |
To reverse art laterally |
Flubdubs |
See dingbats. |
Flush |
Aligned or even with a margin, as in flush left (left aligned or left justified) text. |
Flush left |
See left aligned. |
Flush right |
See right aligned. |
Fold marks |
Dotted or dashed lines, printed outside the image area of artwork to indicate where the printed piece is to be folded.. |
Folio |
Newspaper name, date, and page number that appear at the top of each page |
Follow-up |
Story giving later developments of an event already reported |
Font |
A complete assortment of type of a given design, style and size |
Foot |
The bottom part of the page. |
Foot margin |
White space at the bottom (foot) of a page. |
Footer |
A line at the bottom of a page which can contain information including the title, author, issue date, or page number of a publication. Also called a running foot. |
Footprint |
Information about changes of an element, e.g text or page, created automatically by GN4. |
Force-justified |
Little-used form of justified text alignment that forces all lines, even the last line, out to the margins. See alignment. |
Format (of page) |
Page dimensions and grid settings; (typographical*), item, attached to a text, containing text defaults, style libraries and styles. |
Fountain stripes |
See banding. |
Four-color process |
A printing process that reproduces a full range of colors by overprinting red, yellow, blue and black (The true colors are: magenta, yellow, cyan, and black) |
Fractions |
Case fractions use small numbers with a slash separator. Piece fractions use small numbers, numerator above denominator, with a horizontal separator. Adaptable fractions use full-sized numbers with a slash separator. |
Frame |
(text frame) Container for text in GN4. |
Frame text |
Text placed in a frame (text frame), usually used for story text that will flow into columns or pages. |
Free text |
Text placed directly on a page, generally used for small blocks of text used as headlines, captions, or display type. GN4 term is "local text". |
French spacing |
Refers to text that uses one, rather than two, spaces after the period in each sentence. |
Front-page |
To run (copy) on the front page, esp. of a newspaper; (adj) of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper |
FTE |
Full Time Equivalent; an accounting term that refers to staffing. A full-time employee is one FTE; a two-day-a-week employee is .4 FTEs. A newsroom may have a budget number of total FTEs that will be comprised of full- and part-time workers. |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol. An Internet convention allowing for efficient transfer of data files. |
Full point |
UK term for period. |