Bowl

In typography, a bowl is a curved shape used to control the area of white space.

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Skeuomorphism

The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.

Script Font

A type of font designed to imitate handwriting.

Ellipsis

Also known as a suspension point, is a series of dots (…) that is used either as a substitute for some text that has been omitted from a sentence or when the author does not wish to pause in their writing.

HTML

A language used to create web pages, and it stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

Character Set

A set of symbols or "characters" including letters, numbers and various other symbols.

Crop

A portion of an image where the remainder is discarded.

Fishbone Diagram

Also known as an Ishikawa diagram, is a widely used technique in project management. The diagram provides a means of evaluating the cause-and-effect relationship between the various activities necessary for completing a project by visualising all activities in the project as bones that interconnect on an anterior and posterior spine, with causality flowing from one to another.

Centre Aligned

A layout where all the content, mostly text, is aligned to the centre. The overall purpose of a Centre Alignment is to make it easier for users to read and scroll through content.

Miller's Law

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).

Font Colour

Also known as text colour, is a visible attribute of text determined by the combination of text and background colour.

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