Margin

The space that an item has around it.

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RAW Image

A digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.

Foil Stamping

The process of applying a thin layer of foil to paper coated with adhesive on one side.

Lorem Ipsum

A type of text used as filler or placeholder text. Since the dawn of time, it has been around and is sometimes erroneously referred to as "a nonsense sentence used by printers who have run out of typesetting space".

Pica

A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.

Hero Image

The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.

RGB

Red, green, and blue. These colours can be used to form a wide variety of colours in different devices such as computer monitors and televisions.

User Interface (UI)

A type of graphical interface that allows the user to interact with the application on a screen, such as a computer monitor or smartphone, using various types of input devices.

Crop Marks

Also called trim marks, are markings on artwork that tells the printer where to cut the page.

Script Font

A type of font designed to imitate handwriting.

Fitts' Law

A prediction model used in human-computer interaction. It states that the time required to move to a target area rapidly increases as the distance to the target increases. The law was proposed by Paul Fitts, an American psychologist, in 1954 as a mathematical model of movement with limited cognitive capacity.

Fitts hypothesized that one would quickly select its first apparent target when reaching for an object before considering alternatives — a phenomenon called "target fixation." This tendency would increase progressively with increased distance between the subject and object until it eventually became exponential (i.e., too far away).

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