Glossary

Like any industry, ours uses terms that may be unfamiliar to you. This will help you make sense of these terms.

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trapping
Overlapping one color over a different, adjacent color (without creating a third color). The intention is to ensure that no white space is visible where the two colors meet even if there are slight variations in registration (x-y positioning) of the two colors. See also: bleed; choke; registration; spread.
type size
See point size.