Small uppercase letters, generally about half as tall as regular uppercase letters.
The degree of difference between the two sides of an object or system.
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 or decoration impressed into the surface of a material.
The use of light or dark objects positioned over colourful backgrounds. Blurred backdrops allow bright colours to come through and convey a sense of frosted glass.
The designation of a set of character encoding styles for glyphs that are not capital letters.
The art and discipline of putting together set of typefaces into a harmonious and readable type system. A typeface designer spends much time considering many things such as clear visual message, readability at different sizes, legibility at small point sizes, ease of use for printing processes on its own or over the top of other fonts.
The use of design features that are shaped to resemble a familiar object or thing in order to facilitate user interaction.
A discipline that analyses the usability of an application by assessing its interaction design and user experience.
A triad is a group of three colours that are equally spaced on the colour wheel.
Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.