Monogram

An iconic design that is made up of two or three letters.

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Bottom Navigation

One of the most common types of navigation in UI design. It's usually a system of one or more horizontal buttons placed at the bottom of the screen, directing users to other parts of an app or website. Bottom navigation is often used as an alternative to scrolling or tabbing through links on a page.

AI File

An Adobe Illustrator vector format file. Files with the extension .ai are often used for artwork and illustrations as users can resize them without distortion. It is composed of several layers with objects and text on each layer. Users can import Illustrator files into many other programs like InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop etc. If you design or print your t-shirts, you can create your designs in Illustrator and apply them to your t-shirt using a heat press.

Type Size

The height of a font, measured in points or pixels.

RGB

Red, green, and blue. These colours can be used to form a wide variety of colours in different devices such as computer monitors and televisions.

Soft Return

Also called a line break, when you want to keep the text in one paragraph and not follow it with an airy space.

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.

Triadic Colours

A triad is a group of three colours that are equally spaced on the colour wheel.

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

A term that means the smallest amount of work that can be done to move a project forward.

Left-aligned

Text that flows from left to right and is the default reading direction of a page with its content aligned on the left margin.

Type Properties

The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.

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