Colours on the opposite side of the colour wheel to warm colours. Typically bluish in tone, such as blue or green.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.
A Tagged Image File Format is a file format for storing images losslessly.
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 user interface design carefully crafted to trick people into doing things they might not want to do.
A printing press that uses movable type and punches to make impressions on paper.
A theory in psychology that discusses the general idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's based on a human need to search for stability and meaning, which leads to organic movements towards wholeness. Gestalt Theory assumes there are inherent flaws in how we perceive forms and patterns, and it holds that this innate tendency transforms into an active process of looking for order in reality.
A measure of the height of a set of text on an element.
A design or decoration impressed into the surface of a material.
The design of the interaction between users and products. Interaction design is focused on creating products that enable the user to achieve their objective(s) in the best way possible.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.