Yearbook Terms

Final Pages of the yearbook where the theme is concluded. Should follow ads and index.

• Copy
• Cover
• Closing
• Colophon

A list of technical printing information about the yearbook, including price, number of copies, colors, fonts and photography company.

• Folio
• Graphics
• Colophon
• Gutter

Listing of the pages containing the opening, sections, index and closing. It is usually printed on the front endsheet or in the opening, but not on the title page.

• Bleed
• Candid
• Closing
• Contents

The story.

• Copy
• Parent Ad
• Folio
• Theme

Outside of the yearbook which protects the printed pages.

• Coverage
• Title Page
• Cover
• Spread

A spread used to separate each of the sections of the yearbook.

• Pica
• Caption
• Copy
• Divider

Heavier sheets of paper which hold the pages of the yearbook to the cover.

• Endsheet
• Cover
• Theme
• Yearbook

Eight pages on one side of a signature.

• Candid
• Flat
• Pica
• Spread

The page number and the topic of a spread placed as a unit traditionally at the bottom left and bottom right of the spread.

• Folio Tabs
• Theme
• Copy
• Coverage

Printing in magenta, cyan, yellow and black. These colors combine to create full-color pictures.

• Theme
• Yerd
• Four Color
• Name Plate