A basic design tool that helps designers create and communicate ideas.
A Shortcut is a computer function that performs a set of commands to save time. A Quick Key is a keyboard shortcut used to trigger an action.
A design style first introduced by Microsoft Design Language based on minimalism and simplicity. This newer trend focuses on reducing nonsensical designs and makes the content more accessible for all users.
In this way of designing, fewer elements are used to create shapes and less emphasis on gradients and textures. This modern trend moves away from skeuomorphism. Instead, it focuses on a realistic view or illustration with buttons and icons appearing flat with no shadows.
Designers and developers use font styles to denote differences in meaning between two or more words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or blocks of text. Typical font styles in CSS and web development are normal, italic, oblique and inherit.
A design technique employed on websites and mobile apps that encourages users to scroll to view additional content.
The distance from the baseline to the top of a capital letter, number, or other upper-case glyphs.
CMYK is a colour space created for the printing process. It stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (black).
A digital image captured by a digital camera or scanner that has not been processed in any way by the camera software.
Colours that have a relation in their hue. A colour wheel can be used to help identify analogous colours. Analogous colours are typically found next to each other on the colour wheel.
A unit of measurement that equals 1/6 of an inch, or 1/72 of a foot.
A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. Classes should be used when designing for multiple instances. For example, if you want all <h1> tags in the website to look blue, then you could use the class="blue-text" attribute.