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SIZE—Also called SIZING. Various gelatinous materials made from starch,
clay, glue, and casein used for glazing or coating papers and cloths.
SKETCH—A quickly executed drawing as a preparation toward more
finished work.
SKETCHING PENCIL—See CARPENTER’S PENCIL. A soft-leaded
pencil used for freehand sketching.
SMALL CAPS—Capital letters smaller than the standard capitals of a
typeface and the size of the body of the lowercase letters.
SODIUM THIOSULFATE—Also called HYPO. A salt with water solution
that dissolves the silver halides used in photographic papers and films.
SOFT EDGE—A blended or graduated transition from one value or color to
another.
SOFTWARE—Computer programs that direct the output devices and
determine the input devices effectivity.
SPECIAL EFFECTS GENERATOR—A device that adds or creates effects
to visual images during recording on videotape.
SPECIAL IRREGULAR CURVE—Irregular curves for a specific purpose,
such as ship’s curves, mechanical engineer’s curves, conic sections,
logarithmic spirals, and flexible curve rules.
SPECTRUM —The arrangement of colors side-by-side as refracted by a
prism.
SPEEDBALL PENS—Lettering and drawing pens manufactured by the Hunt
Manufacturing Company that are the hallmark of hand lettering pen nibs.
SPEED LINES—Extra lines following a moving figure or object in a cartoon
representing the disturbance the movement causes in the atmosphere.
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