TIFF File

A Tagged Image File Format is a file format for storing images losslessly.

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Type Size

The height of a font, measured in points or pixels.

Point Size

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.

Type Properties

The attributes of a typeface. Type properties include weight, width, colour and x-height.

Font Type

Most typefaces are classified into one of five basic classifications: serif, sans serif, script, monospaced, and display.

Type Classification

A system used to describe and identify typefaces by their basic visual characteristics.

Agile Design

A process that involves assigning people to work on different parts of the design and making sure that they focus on one area at a time. This method is an excellent way to release products more quickly and with higher quality.

The most common types of agile methods are Scrum, Kanban, XP and Agile Modeling. It can often be difficult for companies to make the switch because it requires significant changes in how product development occurs.

Monochrome

Designs that are created in one colour. It can be any colour, but the whole design will range from light to darker shades. As the name implies, it is typically a single hue, with black and white also being typical combinations for this type of design.

Legibility

How well or poorly something can be read.

Font Case

The way characters are capitalised within a word or phrase. Common font cases are uppercase, lowercase, capitalised (or title case) and sentence case.

Uppercase

Also known as caps, a type property that specifies that all letters in a body of text are capitalised.

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