Scope creep is when the scope of a project starts to grow without any agreement on how it's going to be paid for. Creep happens because items and features are tacked on top of the original scope of work agreed upon in the original contract.
The last line of a paragraph following the rest, or a single line in a paragraph that is out of place with the rest.
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.
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.
Vector graphics are made up of two sets of points: control points (which determine shape) and anchor points (determining length). Anchor points attach geometry to form a shape like a ball or a heart.
The small decorative stroke at the end of a stroke in a letter, or a typeface.
A greater typographic weight than the standard typeface, often used to highlight text that the writer wants to emphasise or denote sections, headlines or quotes in printed material.
Bold type is a little heavier than the average type because of its higher contrast, making it more readable. The opposite of bold type is light type, also known as regular or book.
All available space (line-height) between two consecutive lines of text; this measurement should be adjusted for either ascenders or descenders. In hand typesetting, leading referred to thin strips of lead inserted by hand between lines of type in the composing stick to increase vertical distance.
The meeting point where two lines cross.
A small, non-preview image that accompanies a larger image. It provides an immediate sense of the content while not necessarily revealing it in its entire scope.
Also called trim marks, are markings on artwork that tells the printer where to cut the page.