A brief snippet taken from the text of an article.
The typographic presentation of a company's name in a stylized form.
CMYK is a colour space created for the printing process. It stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (black).
A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are a language for describing the look and formatting of HTML elements in a webpage.
Contrast in design can be accomplished by placing two opposite colours adjacent to one another, creating a focal point within the design that dominates the composition.
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.
The written information that accompanies a design.
A print that the printer receives to monitor the progress of production. Proofing is a matter of looking at the print to ensure that it has been printed correctly and that the colours are rendered accurately.
A standalone web page with content intended to capture a visitor. Often, it has the same URL as the website's home page and is used in paid or sponsored search engine marketing (known more commonly as pay-per-click) advertising campaigns.
An iconic design that is made up of two or three letters.