Thumb index
Round cut-out in the pages of a publication
A thumb index, also called a cut-in index[1] or an index notch,[2] is a round cut-out in the pages of dictionaries, encyclopedias, Bibles and other large religious books, and various sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section. The individual notches are called thumb cuts.
Several ways to achieve this indexing effect were invented and patented in the 1970s by Arthur S. Friedman, a printing engineer in New York.[3]
See also
- Index (publishing)
References
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Book design
typography
- Annotation
- Footnote
- Gloss
- Marginal note
- Scholia
- Canons of page construction
- Catchword
- Column
- Footer
- Header
- Headpiece
- Illumination
- Initial
- Historiated
- Inhabited
- Margin
- Miniature
- Ornament
- Page numbering
- Pull quote
- Recto and verso
- Rubric
- Rubrication
- Typeface
back covers
- Half-title
- bastard title
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Edition notice
- Imprimi potest
- Nihil obstat
- Imprimatur
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Printer's mark
- Body text
- Chapters
- Illustrations
- Parts
- Sections
- Tipped-in pages
- Afterword
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Addendum/Appendix
- Endnotes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Errata
- Colophon
- Postface
- Author page
- Book curse
- Bookplate
- ex-librīs
- Book rhyme
- Die-cutting
- Extra-illustration
- Fore-edge painting
- Intentionally blank page
- Pop-ups
- Slipcase
- Thumb index
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