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 process of arranging type to make written material readable. The arrangement of type involves decisions about individual letters and words (e.g. line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing) and more significant page layout decisions (e.g., margins, headline position on the page).
The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.
A brief snippet taken from the text of an article.
A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.
A type of serif, characterized by large x-heights and thick, blocky strokes with little variation in width.
Designers and developers use font styles to denote differences in meaning between two or more words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or blocks of text. Typical font styles in CSS and web development are normal, italic, oblique and inherit.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
A way of expressing colours on digital media. To specify a hex code, you need to consider the three primary colours: red, green and blue. The hex code is always six characters long and looks like this: #RRGGBB and their values range from 00 to FF.
The degree of difference between the two sides of an object or system.
The thickness or thinness of a typeface. Common font weights are light, regular/normal, semi-bold, bold and extra bold.