Typefaces that are used across large bodies of text like headlines. Text typefaces are generally more varied than body-text typefaces.
The feeling or mood created by a design.
A term that means the smallest amount of work that can be done to move a project forward.
A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.
An abbreviation for Portable Document Format. The PDF format was originally developed to share documents between different operating systems in the late 1980s. Any text document, image or page layout can be saved as a PDF file that includes all of the font information needed to display it without losing quality.
A UX design technique in which you divide your users into groups, show them cards with different names for unrelated objects and ask them to categorise them.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
The name, logo, and other identifying information at the top of a newspaper or magazine publication.
A type of typographical contrast used to convey emphasis. Italics were initially developed for the printing press and are now widely used in print, web design, public signs and labelling systems.
A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. Classes should be used when designing for multiple instances. For example, if you want all <h1> tags in the website to look blue, then you could use the class="blue-text" attribute.
The portion of a letter such as y, p, q or j that hangs below the baseline of the text.