Small Caps

Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.

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Texture

The surface quality of an element.

Right-aligned

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

Hand-lettering

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

Usability Testing

A process in which subjects use a product or service under test conditions and report their experience.

Alignment

The process of arranging objects in a consistent and even spatial relationship. It can refer to how text is aligned with respect to its margins or how any two or more things are aligned in general.

Font Colour

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

Small Caps

Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.

Lorem Ipsum

A type of text used as filler or placeholder text. Since the dawn of time, it has been around and is sometimes erroneously referred to as "a nonsense sentence used by printers who have run out of typesetting space".

JPEG Image

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Group, an international standards body that sets standards for creating and handling compressed digital images. The JPEG file format was designed to balance good visual quality and small file size, typically through lossy compression. The JPEG file format is widely used as a means of compressing digital images, particularly those produced by digital cameras.

Body-storming

A UX design technique to explore and map out a service, product, or system through physical navigation, often completed at the start of a design process to provide designers with an understanding of how users will navigate the system. In addition, body-storming can be used in development to test functionality or measure ease of use.

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