A PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file is a bitmap image format that has been designed to store images with an alpha channel. This format is primarily used for transparency so that it can be placed over other graphics in many design applications.
A design or decoration impressed into the surface of a material.
The way characters are capitalised within a word or phrase. Common font cases are uppercase, lowercase, capitalised (or title case) and sentence case.
The distance between two points of extrusion or an object. It can also be defined as the measurement of size.
A pixel, or a picture element, is the smallest addressable element in a display device.
The art and science of arranging information so that it's intuitive to find, easy to navigate, presents a cohesive design, meets accessibility guidelines, looks attractive on any device or screen size and ultimately drives behaviour change.
A quick and rough sketch of what you are about to work on. Good for getting the ideas out of your head and onto the page while you're still in that creative phase.
Also known as an Ishikawa diagram, is a widely used technique in project management. The diagram provides a means of evaluating the cause-and-effect relationship between the various activities necessary for completing a project by visualising all activities in the project as bones that interconnect on an anterior and posterior spine, with causality flowing from one to another.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
The intensity of a color relative to its own brightness. Colours are said to be saturated when they have a strong hue and high intensity.
The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.