The word "bracket" is often used to refer to parentheses and is written as either [] or () and used to delimit blocks of text, e.g. a set of instructions. Within brackets, items are arranged from left to right in order of precedence.
The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.
How well or poorly something can be read.
A non-functional first draft of a design.
Typefaces that are used across large bodies of text like headlines. Text typefaces are generally more varied than body-text typefaces.
The intensity of a color relative to its own brightness. Colours are said to be saturated when they have a strong hue and high intensity.
A process in which subjects use a product or service under test conditions and report their experience.
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.
A well-known cognitive psychologist's principle that says that the time it takes to make a decision varies logarithmically according to the number of choices. As more options are presented, more decision time is required due to the mental work of comparing and contrasting each potential option.
The study of how colours are related to one another. It is about how we see colour, mix and modify it (according to our needs), and put colour together to achieve the desired mood or atmosphere.
The small decorative stroke at the end of a stroke in a letter, or a typeface.