Tittle

The typographic term for the dot above the letters 'i' and 'j'.

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Golden Ratio

Also known as the divine proportion, is a number, or a ratio, sometimes approximated by phi and widely considered aesthetically pleasing. The golden ratio has been featured in nature and art in many ways, including hexagonal honeycombs, the human body, and mathematics. More frequently, it is used in design and digital art to represent a path (or steps) one can take to achieve a particular look or result. In art, an artist may produce something (a painting or drawing, for example) using the golden ratio as a basis for its composition.

Baseline

An imaginary line on which most letters "sit". As such, it equals the height of an em square. The expected result of a baseline is to reference the height with which text is aligned. The alignment ranges from ascenders, which are the upper strokes in b, d, and h, down to descenders like j or y.

Tittle

The typographic term for the dot above the letters 'i' and 'j'.

Bowl

In typography, a bowl is a curved shape used to control the area of white space.

Pagination

A technique used to sequentially present items in a list or other data set that are too long to display at one time.

Trim Size

The width and height of a document, after having been cut down to size from a larger sheet.

AI File

An Adobe Illustrator vector format file. Files with the extension .ai are often used for artwork and illustrations as users can resize them without distortion. It is composed of several layers with objects and text on each layer. Users can import Illustrator files into many other programs like InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop etc. If you design or print your t-shirts, you can create your designs in Illustrator and apply them to your t-shirt using a heat press.

Texture

The surface quality of an element.

TIFF File

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

Placeholder Text

Text that is used to fill in a gap in a document.

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