MAGAZINES

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- BY JENNY BROWN

Let's Take A Short Tour of this page. See the month and page number at the bottom? That's called a folio. The inside margin, where this page meets the opposite one, is the gutter. And the space between lines is known as leading (rhymes with “heading”), which refers to the old-timey practice of inserting lead strips between lines of text during the printing process. We use lingo from the early days of printing because magazines go back centuries. They arose in Europe in the 1660s, about 60 years after the first printed newspapers, and were initially very scholarly; a German theologian is credited with creating the first one, a series of philosophical musings titled