Chat-isms
A long punctuation mark often overused by Chat to separate information, expand on a clause, or indicate a break.
What is an em dash?
Red and green.
Blue and orange.
Yellow and purple.
What are Complimentary Colors?
This type of word shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. Contrary to popular belief, these can end sentences.
What is a preposition?
This is the general design of a set of characters — for example: Helvetica, Garamond, or Futura.
What is a typeface?
He frequently uses this British English expression to convey delight.
A small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, or thing often used by chat in place of bullets in a list.
What is an emoji? 🐸
You can't put white text on a yellow background because it goes against this principle.
What is accessibility?
This verb form ends in -ing, but functions as a noun.
What is a gerund?
When you increase or decrease the overall spacing between letters in a word or line of text, you’re adjusting this.
What is tracking?
He's artificially expanded this person's name, sowing confusion across the agency.
An invitation to accompany chat as it deconstructs information or gets into the details.
What is "Let's break it down"?
This type of graphic file uses mathematical paths instead of pixels, so it can be scaled infinitely without losing quality.
What is a vector?
Words that sound alike, but have different meanings.
What are homophones?
This term refers to the space between individual pairs of letters, often fine-tuned to improve readability or aesthetics.
What is kerning?
Landon's nickname for him.
What is "Squash"?
This polite, one-word response often starts a ChatGPT answer — right before a list appears.
What is "Certainly!"?
This color mode is used for designs that will appear on screens, not paper.
What is RGB?
What is an initialism?
This vertical spacing between lines of text is named after the thin strips once placed between rows of type in printing presses.
What is leading?
His most common answer to the question, "How are you?"
What is "Never better"?
When ChatGPT can’t give you something you want, it may soften the refusal with this phrase.
What is "While I can't provide [X], I can tell you that..."?
Every single designer's least favorite feedback from a client.
What is "Make it pop"?
“She likes to read, write, and running.”
The sentence above lacks this.
What is parallelism?
This term describes the decorative extensions on certain letters, such as the curved tail on a lowercase “g.”
What is a descender?
His go-to legume-based mixed oath.
What is "Ah, beans"?