The way that a user navigates through a website, app, etc.
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".
A phenomenon in psychology in which recalling items in a list imposes an order on the list, with the first and last items remembered best. That is, if given a list of words to remember like "dog apple tree", people will tend to recall "dog" as being at the beginning of the sentence and "tree" as being at the end of it.
A form of typographic ornament used by a type designer for decorative purposes. Common ligatures are based on joining two or more letters together, often with figures embedded in the design
A unit for defining the size of a font. It's not a distance; this unit's measurement is only relative to the typeface's design.
An observation in Psychology that suggests that the number of mental objects the average person can keep track of is seven (plus or minus two).
The small decorative stroke at the end of a stroke in a letter, or a typeface.
The print resolution of a printer. It's a measure of how many dots per inch can be printed on paper. Higher DPI means more detail and smoother transitions between colours.
The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.
Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.