The distance from the baseline to the top of a capital letter, number, or other upper-case glyphs.
A style of typeface that uses a width-to-height ratio of 1:1.
A Tagged Image File Format is a file format for storing images losslessly.
A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. ID should be used when designing for a single instance, such as using the id="main" attribute on an <h1> tag.
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.
A type of user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.
The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.
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 thickness or thinness of a typeface. Common font weights are light, regular/normal, semi-bold, bold and extra bold.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
The small, non-essential text that appears on an interface. It has been set up specifically to be short and concise to draw attention to an essential user experience.