Sans-serif typeface: A typeface that has no serifs ie. Helvetica or Swiss. The stroke weight is usually uniform and the stress oblique but there are exceptions.
Scaling: This is reduction or enlargement of artwork which can be proportional or disproportional. In desktop publishing the term optimal scaling of bitmaps refers to the reduction or enlargement that will avoid or reduce moiré patterns.
Screen font: Low screen resolution bitmaps of type characters that show the positioning and size of characters on the screen. As opposed to a printer font which may be high resolution bitmaps or font outline masters.
Screen (tint): In graphic art it is a uniform dotted fill pattern described in percentage (eg. 50 percent screen).
Script: Connected and flowing letters resembling hand writing with a pen or quill. Either slanted or upright. Sometimes even with a left-hand slant.
Serif: In a typeface it is a counterstroke on letterforms projecting from the ends of the main strokes. eg. Times or Dutch is a serifed typeface. Some typefaces have no serifs. These typefaces are called sans-serif.
Set width: In type it is the horizontal width of characters. Typefaces vary in the average horizontal set width of each character (eg. Times has a narrow set width) and set widths of individual characters vary in typeset copy depending on the shape of the character and the surrounding characters.
Sidebar: In newsletter or magazine layout a related story or block of information that is set apart from the main body text and usually boxed and/or screened.
Small caps: This refers to capital letters set at the x-height of the font.
Solarization: A photographic image in which both blacks and whites appear to be black and midtones approach white.
Solid: This is lines of type with no space between the lines (unleaded).
Spot color separation: For offset printing the separation of solid premixed ink colors (eg. green, brown, light olive, etc.) used when the areas to be colored are not adjacent. Spot color separations can be indicated on the tissue cover of the mechanical or can be made with overlays.
Spread: In a double-sided document the combination of two facing pages which are designed as a unit. It is also the adjacent inside panels of a brochure when opened.
Standing elements: In page design the elements that repeat exactly from page to page but not only in terms of style but also in terms of page position and the content. The most commonly used standing elements are page headers or footers with automatic page numbering.
Standoff: It is the amount of space between a block of text and a graphic or in between two blocks of text that wrap.
Stress: In a typeface the axis around which the strokes are drawn: oblique (negative or positive) or vertical. Not to be confused with the angle of the strokes themselves (eg, italics are made with slanted strokes but may not have oblique stress).
Stroke weight: in a typeface it is the amount of contrast between thick and thin strokes. Different typefaces have distinguishing stroke-weight characteristics.
Style sheet: In a DTP program the style sheets contain the typographic specifications to be associated with tagged text. They can be used to set up titles, headings and the attributes of blocks of text such as lists, tables and text associated with illustrations. The use of style sheets is a quick and efficient way to insure that all comparable elements are consistent.
Subhead: Is a secondary phrase usually following a headline. Display line or lines of lesser size and importance than the main headline or headlines.
Subscript: This is a character slightly smaller than the rest of the font that is set below the baseline. It is used in chemical equations and as base denotation in math and sometimes as the denominator of fractions.
Superscript: A character that is slightly smaller than the rest of the font and set above the baseline. Used for footnote markers and sometimes it is used as the numerator of fractions.
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