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.
An imaginary line on which most letters "sit". As such, it equals the height of an em square. The expected result of a baseline is to reference the height with which text is aligned. The alignment ranges from ascenders, which are the upper strokes in b, d, and h, down to descenders like j or y.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are a language for describing the look and formatting of HTML elements in a webpage.
The meeting point where two lines cross.
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.
Text that flows from right to left and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the right margin.
A design or decoration impressed into the surface of a material.
The width and height of a document, after having been cut down to size from a larger sheet.
A graphical representation of a scenario, usually created and presented in sequence.
A type of typographical contrast used to convey emphasis. Italics were initially developed for the printing press and are now widely used in print, web design, public signs and labelling systems.
When you need to break a line of text and start on a new line in a text box.