A greater typographic weight than the standard typeface, often used to highlight text that the writer wants to emphasise or denote sections, headlines or quotes in printed material.
Bold type is a little heavier than the average type because of its higher contrast, making it more readable. The opposite of bold type is light type, also known as regular or book.
A measure of the ease of understanding text.
A Tagged Image File Format is a file format for storing images losslessly.
The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.
Typically used on the internet or web pages to provide easily accessible navigation for users. Typically, the breadcrumb navigation appears along the top of a webpage or at other locations on a webpage so that users can know where they are on a site quickly and efficiently.
A decoration technique used primarily on paper, metal, and some plastics in which ink or another printing medium is pressed into the material's surface to create a three-dimensional effect.
The thickness or thinness of a typeface. Common font weights are light, regular/normal, semi-bold, bold and extra bold.
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).
Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.
Vector graphics are made up of two sets of points: control points (which determine shape) and anchor points (determining length). Anchor points attach geometry to form a shape like a ball or a heart.
The art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.