Tabloid-sized page: A page that measures 11" x 17" and most often used in portrait orientation for newspapers. Not to be confused with an 11" x 17" spread, which is made up of two letter-sized pages.
Tags: For style sheets it is delimited sets of characters embedded in the text or internally coded. Tags apply to paragraphs (text terminated with a hard return .This includes titles and headings) and indicates the function of paragraphs. The actual type specification depends on the style sheet that is associated with the tag.
Template: In page design it is a file with an associated style sheet and all standing and serial elements in place on a master or base page. Used for publication following the same design.
Text wrap: This is the spatial relationship between blocks of text and graphics or between two blocks of text. A text wrap may be rectangular, irregular or arbitrary.
Thumbnails: These are miniature pictures sketched as first design ideas like thinking on paper or on the screen.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format): This is for digital gray-scale halftones and is a device-independent graphics file format. TIFF files can be used on IBM/compatible or Macintosh computers and may be output to PostScript printers.
Tiling (tile): Refers to printing a page layout in sections with overlapping edges so that the individual pieces can be pasted together.
Tombstoning: In multicolumn publications when two or more headings are in the same horizontal position on the page.
Track: In type to reduce space uniformly between all the characters in a line. As opposed to kerning which is the variable reduction of space between the specific characters.
Type alignment: The distribution of white space in a line of type where the characters at their normal set width do not fill the complete line length exactly. Type can be aligned left, right, centered or right justified.
Typeface: This is the set of characters created by a type designer including uppercase and lowercase alphabetical characters, numbers, punctuation and other special characters. A single typeface contains many fonts at different sizes and styles.
Type families: This is a group of typefaces of the same base design but with different weights and proportions.
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