Hand-lettering

The art of drawing original characters and symbols — especially for decorative purposes.

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Hero Image

The primary graphic that appears at the top of a webpage, designed to grab people's attention.

Hand-lettering

The art of drawing original characters and symbols — especially for decorative purposes.

Full-stack Developer

A software developer who designs, develops, maintains and supports the entire end-to-end product. These developers are capable of developing and implementing modern solutions to any industry problem. They typically work with different technologies such as mobile application development, web application development, back-end software development and front-end software development.

Point Size

A unit for defining the size of a font. It's not a distance; this unit's measurement is only relative to the typeface's design.

Embossing

A decoration technique used primarily on paper, metal, and some plastics in which ink or another printing medium is pressed into the material's surface to create a three-dimensional effect.

Empathy

A type of understanding that is achieved by taking the perspective of another individual. Different people's perspectives often have different needs and values, so empathy can help you understand those differences.

Character Set

A set of symbols or "characters" including letters, numbers and various other symbols.

Readability

A measure of the ease of understanding text.

Font Colour

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

Thumbnail Sketch

A quick and rough sketch of what you are about to work on. Good for getting the ideas out of your head and onto the page while you're still in that creative phase.

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