Pixel

A pixel, or a picture element, is the smallest addressable element in a display device.

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Web Page Elements

A textual or graphical component in a web page.

Bowl

In typography, a bowl is a curved shape used to control the area of white space.

Proximity

The placement or otherwise of a thing in relation to other things. In design, proximity may be considered as the distance between two items in space or their relative location to each other.

Monogram

An iconic design that is made up of two or three letters.

Centre Aligned

A layout where all the content, mostly text, is aligned to the centre. The overall purpose of a Centre Alignment is to make it easier for users to read and scroll through content.

Descenders

The portion of a letter such as y, p, q or j that hangs below the baseline of the text.

Logotype

The typographic presentation of a company's name in a stylized form.

Design Debt

A concept used in systems design to describe the negative consequences of making seemingly innocuous design changes. Shorthand for a product's delayed but inevitable need to be reworked due to earlier, seemingly trivial decisions not having been fully thought through in the original release.

Designers incur this "debt" by making quick and easy choices that save time in the present but cause more complex problems later on down the road when it becomes necessary to change or add something.

Stroke

The path of any movement, mark, shape, or other feature of a design. It can be the border of an element or even the tight edge of a text box, etc.

Prototype

Usually the first functional form of a new product, created to test a concept or prove out some aspects of design.

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