An imaginary line on which most letters "sit". As such, it equals the height of an em square. The expected result of a baseline is to reference the height with which text is aligned. The alignment ranges from ascenders, which are the upper strokes in b, d, and h, down to descenders like j or y.
Text that is used to fill in a gap in a document.
A graphical representation of the user on a device, used to represent various users in different contexts. It can be a photo, image or drawing.
A measure of the ease of understanding text.
The feeling or mood created by a design.
Most typefaces are classified into one of five basic classifications: serif, sans serif, script, monospaced, and display.
The process of arranging objects in a consistent and even spatial relationship. It can refer to how text is aligned with respect to its margins or how any two or more things are aligned in general.
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.
A type of design where the colours or tones gradually change from one colour to another. Gradients are often used in graphic design to add visual interest and give the appearance of "extensions" or "glosses" of a particular colour.
Typefaces that are used across large bodies of text like headlines. Text typefaces are generally more varied than body-text typefaces.
The distance between two points of extrusion or an object. It can also be defined as the measurement of size.