Pixel

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

A graphic element that has a definite length and direction. Examples of vectors would be straight lines, edges, or curves.

Also called trim marks, are markings on artwork that tells the printer where to cut the page.

The placement or otherwise of a thing in relation to other things. In design, proximity may be considered as the distance between two items in space or their relative location to each other.

A measure of the ease of understanding text.

A psychological principle which predicts that when multiple homogeneous stimuli are presented, the stimulus which differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered. In other words, people tend to remember items in isolation more than those of a similar nature or objects in clusters. This phenomenon has been applied in designing websites and software with various levels of success.

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

The adjustment of all characters in a line by moving them closer together or farther apart.

A generic term for adding colour to an image. A tint can be applied by darkening a colour to create different shades or lightening the saturation, creating a washed-out look.

A design or decoration impressed into the surface of a material.