Cyan moves things
The working accent: primary actions, live proof rounds, plates travelling to the printer.
The proofing desk for exhibition catalogues
Galley puts the whole catalogue on one marked-up sheet — plates, captions, credits and press dates — so your publications team passes, holds or recuts every page the way a proofreader would: with a mark that means something.
A proof round in Galley works the way it works on paper at Harbor Light: the proofs arrive, the desk marks them, the printer answers. Nothing hides in a comment thread.
Round two lands as one sheet: forty-eight plates against the loan list, each with its caption, credit and colour bar.
Pass, hold, or recut — every plate takes exactly one mark, signed by whoever placed it. A hold always names what it waits on.
Meridian Lithographers sees only settled marks: recuts to make, holds to watch, and the plates cleared for Friday's run.
A caption is a contract: title, year, medium, dimensions, lender credit — exactly as the loan agreement wrote them. Galley keeps the agreement beside the plate, so the registrar's wording is one glance away, and a wrong credit line surfaces before it costs a reprint.
“We closed Tidal Ink two days early. The proofs never left one sheet, and the printer never asked us what a mark meant.”Mara Okafor · Head of Publications, Harbor Light Museum Press
Galley's page stays white paper and black ink. Colour appears only as the proofreader's stickers — and each one is a verdict, not a decoration.
The working accent: primary actions, live proof rounds, plates travelling to the printer.
The stop mark: registration drift, a failed colour bar, a plate going back to be cut again.
The waiting mark: a credit line unconfirmed, an essay still with its author, a date not yet set.
The same marked-up sheet serves every desk that ships printed matter with real deadlines and real lenders.
Plates against loan agreements, essays against word counts, one press date the whole building can see.
Issue proofs move through rounds with signed marks, so the close never depends on somebody's memory.
Catalogue raisonné entries carry their sources like captions carry credits — checked, held, or passed.
Long-form pieces with commissioned artwork keep text, image rights and print specs on one sheet.