Halftone: In traditional publishing it is a continuous-tone image photographed through a screen in order to create small dots of varying sizes that can be reproduced on a printing press. Digital halftones are produced by sampling a continuous-tone image and assigning different quantities of dots and which simulate different sized dots for the same effect.
Halftone screen: In traditional publishing it is the screen through which a continuous-tone image is photographed and is measured in lines per inch. Although digital halftones are not actually photographed through a screen the term is still used to describe the size of the dots. The larger the dots are (fewer lines per inch), the more grainy the image appears. Special screens can be used to create special effects.
Hang indent alignment: This is type set so that the first line is flush left and subsequent lines are indented on the page.
Hard hyphen: A non breaking hyphen that is used when the two parts of the hyphenated word should not be separated. As opposed to a soft (or normal) hyphen on which the word-wrapping function of a program will "break" a line.
Hard return: A return created by the Return or Enter key. This is opposed to a word-wrap or soft return, which will adjust according to the character count and the column width.
Head: A line or lines of copytype set in a larger face than that of the body copy.
Hyphenation zone: For ragged-right text an arbitrary zone about 1/5 to 1/10 of the length of the line. If a long word is not hyphenated and leaves a gap within that zone then the discretionary hyphens are used to fill the line.
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