Design Dictionary
The lining up of text or images
What is alignment?
Used to share documents keeping the same layout, fonts, and graphics no matter the device
What is a PDF?
Document outlines the goals, audience, and requirements of the design project.
What is the brief?
Type that is slanted
What is italic?
This tool helps you move objects around.
What is the Move Tool?
Visual weight of elements in a composition
What is balance?
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What is the image format that supports transparency?
Look at similar projects or styles for inspiration and analysis.
What is research?
A font that has little 'feet' or strokes
What is serif?
This tool samples colors from objects in the document.
What is the Eyedropper Tool?
A large difference between two things to create interest and tension
What is contrast?
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What is file extension for a saved Photopea file?
Designers sketch creative ideas, lists, begin solving the design problem.
What is brainstorming?
A font that does NOT have little feet or strokes
What is sans-serif?
Key command for copying an element
What is "control > c"?
Using visual space to show relationships in your content.
What is proximity?
The process of naming, organizing, and storing files so they are easy to find and use later.
What is file management (usually in Google Drive)?
Designer starts creating drafts and experimenting with layouts, colors, and type
What is designing?
A particular size, weight and style of a typeface
What is a font?
In a print piece what should the DPI always be?
What is 300?
Using similar visual elements to create unity and flow.
What is repetition?
File extension that is ideal for photos and realistic images
What is JPG or JPEG?
Presenting or sending the completed work to the client or public.
What is delivery?
Typography is the art or procedure of arranging ____
What is text (letters)?
Acts as a canvas for your projects.
What is an Artboard?