character
Any letter, number, space or mark that is used in any text

character count
The total number of individual letters, numbers, punctuation, spaces and other characters in a section of a text

character encoding
Most operating systems on the market use 1 byte to represent characters. This means that 256 different characters can be used on such a system. Unfortunately different operating systems use different character sets. So a character that can be used on a Macintosh may not be present in the character set of a Windows computer or vice versa. Any well designed font contains all the character shapes (glyphs) that are used in all character sets. A special table (the character encoding table) is used within the font or the operating system to map the character set used by the computer to the corresponding glyphs.

character per pica
A copyfitting system using the average number of characters-per-pica to calculate and estimate the length text copy will occupy when set in a given typeset within a given area.

character set
The complete collections of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and special characters that comprise specific fonts.

Cheetah
Code name for Mac OS X 10.0

chevron
See angle quote

Chooser
A Macintosh desk accessory used to designate a specific printer, imagesetter, or other output device as the current output device

chroma
The attribute of color that specifies the amount of saturation or strength in the Munsell color space model.

ChromaCom
The brand name for the color electronic prepress system marketed by Linotype-Hell Company
chrome A slang term referring to a color transpency that is used as the original copy. Chrome is not incorrectly used as a short term for Cromalin.

Cibachrome
Photographic color emulsion type films and papers used to make transparencies and prints. Cibachrome is manufactured by Ilford Photo Corporation

cicero
A typographic unit of length in the Didot measurement system commonly used in Europe. It is 0.1776 inchesÐslightly larger than a pica.

CID
Abbreviation for Character IDentifier: special type of fonts developed by Adobe

CIE
Abbreviation for Comité Internationale de l’Eclairage: standardisation committee dealing with color

CIELAB
Colour space defined by CIE

CIELUV
Colour space defined by CIE

CIEXYZ
Colour space defined by CIE

CINEPAK
Video compression/decompression (codec) format developed by SuperMac Technologies for use on a Mac. Later licensed to other companies as well.

CIP3
Abbreviation for Committee for the Integration of Prepress, Press and Postpress

CIP4
This is the successor to the CIP3 committee. The abbreviation stands for ‘International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress’. The CIP4 organisation defines and promotes the JDF standard for exchanging job related information between systems, from the creation of jobs to the finished product.

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