Thank you for visiting my blog site. I am new to blog sites, but I am excited to begin my blogging adventure. I have a class called “Web and Print Publication Design” that is inspirational. This class has taught me all the different newspaper layout terms and definitions as shown below. I would also like to highlight things I have learned.
Newspapers have grid systems. This newspaper has 7 columns, but is broken up in lesser columns in other areas of the newspaper. I know this picture is hard to see, but you get the general idea that newspapers are structured in a certain way and have terms that define specific areas of a newspaper. Newspaper Terms This site has more terms than I can name here and is an excellent site to use as a reference. Other terms I learned was kerning which is the space between letters or character spacing, I learned leading was the space between lines of text or simply line spacing. I learned “[o]ne of the earliest newspapers was the Roman Acta Diurna said to have been started by Julius Caesar”
The History of Printing and Printing Processes
I’ve known about the Gutenberg Press for many years and how it was the first to use movable type. Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press was “a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held within a wooden form and the form was then pressed against a sheet of paper”
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