Font Colour

Also known as text colour, is a visible attribute of text determined by the combination of text and background colour.

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Lowercase

The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.

Font Type

Most typefaces are classified into one of five basic classifications: serif, sans serif, script, monospaced, and display.

RAW Image

A digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.

Icon

A small picture or design that represents an idea, function, or some other type of visual concept. For example, in computer graphics and web development, an icon is a pictorial representation of a program or file type.

Card Sorting

A UX design technique in which you divide your users into groups, show them cards with different names for unrelated objects and ask them to categorise them.

Asymmetry

The degree of difference between the two sides of an object or system.

User Flow

The way that a user navigates through a website, app, etc.

System Font

A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.

Style Guide

A group of rules, guidelines, and/or standards designers use when producing artwork or branded projects ensuring that they have the desired appearance and are compliant with usage guidelines.

Gestalt Theory

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.

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