Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.
The print resolution of a printer. It's a measure of how many dots per inch can be printed on paper. Higher DPI means more detail and smoother transitions between colours.
A generic term for adding colour to an image. A tint can be applied by darkening a colour to create different shades or lightening the saturation, creating a washed-out look.
The way characters are capitalised within a word or phrase. Common font cases are uppercase, lowercase, capitalised (or title case) and sentence case.
A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.
A well-known UI element in computer applications. It's an expandable menu of context-specific commands typically launched from the application's main menu.
A measure of the ease of understanding text.
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).
CMYK is a colour space created for the printing process. It stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (black).
The principle of both sides of an object having a sense of symmetry. It ensures that the weight and visual mass are distributed evenly on both sides of a surface. Balance is more important than symmetry because people don't often notice when something is asymmetrical, but they will always see if something is unbalanced.
A type of user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.