Not My Type
Desktop Publishing
Illustrator
Web Design
Elements of Design
100
The height of a letter from the baseline to the top of the lowercase letter.
x-height
100
These are blank areas at the top, bottom and sides of a page.
Margins
100
The name for the white rectangle where you put your text and artwork in Illustrator.
Artboard
100
This is typically placed in the top left corner of a home page
Logo
100
Hue is another word for this element of design.
Color
200
The part of a letter that hangs down below the baseline
Descender
200
This can be centered, left, right or justified.
Alignment
200
Adobe Illustrator is this kind of drawing program.
Vector
200
The list of pages within a site - you can click on to get to that page
Navigation
200
This element of design refers to the area around, above, below, or behind an object.
Space
300
The part of a letter that sticks up above the x-height.
Ascender
300
This allows you to print edge to edge on a document.
Bleed
300
Selection Tool
300
CSS stands for this
Cascading Style Sheets
300
This element refers to the relative lightness or darkness of an object.
Value
400
Type is typically measured in these increments.
Points
400
The space between columns of text
Gutter
400
Pen tool
400
On a web page, scrolling should be limited to
3 pages
400
This element describes the way a surface feels, or the way it’s perceived to feel
Texture
500
Type relationship when you use two VERY different fonts.
Contrast
500
The part outside the printable area of a document for printer's notes.
Slug
500
The shortcut for the Live Paint paint bucket
K
500
Of h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, the largest heading size.
h1
500
This element refers to something three dimensional, and there are two types: geometric (man-made) and natural (organic).
Form