The thickness or thinness of a typeface. Common font weights are light, regular/normal, semi-bold, bold and extra bold.
Framing consisting of cutting off or obscuring most of the surrounding of a subject, removing distractions from the background and emphasising the subject.
A type of serif, characterized by large x-heights and thick, blocky strokes with little variation in width.
A type of font designed to imitate handwriting.
The distance from the baseline to the top of a capital letter, number, or other upper-case glyphs.
The measure of a device or computer system's ability to capture fine detail. A higher number of pixels can provide more details and finer images on the screen.
Text that flows from left to right and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the left margin.
A graphical representation of the user on a device, used to represent various users in different contexts. It can be a photo, image or drawing.
A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. ID should be used when designing for a single instance, such as using the id="main" attribute on an <h1> tag.
All available space (line-height) between two consecutive lines of text; this measurement should be adjusted for either ascenders or descenders. In hand typesetting, leading referred to thin strips of lead inserted by hand between lines of type in the composing stick to increase vertical distance.
The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.