Yearbook Vocabulary

Final pages of the yearbook (usually three pages or more) where the theme is concluded. Should follow ads and index.

• closing

• back

• end page

• front lid

A list of the technical printing information about the yearbook, including price, number of copies, colors, fonts, photography company and awards won by previous year’s book. This often appears at the end of the index. (Hint: Ms. Hayes said she couldn't pronounce this word!)

• colophon

• colon

• catastrophe

• cover

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

• contents

• copy

• theme

• signature

Answer explanation

I think of this as "Table of Contents" to help me remember!

The story. One should be included on every spread. This might include lists, quotes, personal narratives, surveys and other material that accurately tells the story.

• copy

• magazine

• chapter

• spread

Using more than one spread for a topic and linking the additional spreads to the first with a headline or similar design. Also called jump coverage.

• depth coverage

• flat

• signature

• yearbook

A spread used to separate each of the sections of the yearbook. It is usually theme related in design and the copy links the following section to the main theme.

• divider

• title page

• end sheet

• colophon

Heavier sheets of paper which hold the pages of the yearbook to the cover. May be plain or designed. Might contain the contents.

• endsheet

• cover page

• front lid

• back lid

Eight pages on one side of a signature. In the first signature of the yearbook, for example, pages 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 16 make up one of these. Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 15 are printed on the other side of the signature.

• flat

• page

• signature

• chapter

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

• guide

• key

• front lid

Printing in cyan (blue), magenta (reddish pink), yellow and black or CMYK. These inks combine to create full-color pictures.

• four color

• spot color

• lid color