Design 101
This is the empty space around design elements that helps a layout breathe.
What is white space?
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What is white?
This image type is made of tiny squares.
What is raster?
Once a fleet admiral, this designer now also makes lattes.
Who is zuby?
The entire design team is on this drug.
What is caffeine?
This design principle helps a layout feel stable even when elements are not identical.
What is balance?
This color model is used most often for print materials.
What is CMYK?
This image type can scale up without losing quality.
What is vector?
This designer has torn their right buttcheek.
Who is Syd?
These amphibian wizards help make the design magic happen.
What are frogs?
This principle creates visual interest by placing different elements near each other.
What is contrast?
This color does not exist in the natural world.
What is magenta?
This problem happens when a raster image is enlarged too much.
What is pixelation?
The designer who throws up from migraines but routinely fails to keep it all in the toilet.
Who is Michoo?
This design "intern" has been here three years and loves making t-shirt designs.
Who is Matt the Manatee?
This design principle helps guide the viewer’s eye to what matters most.
What is hierarchy?
This synthetic carbon nanotube material absorbs 99.96% of light, rendering 3D objects completely flat to the eye.
What is Vantablack?
This file type can contain both raster images and vector graphics, which makes it useful but also mildly suspicious.
What is PDF?
This designer hates shoestring fries, believes in a flat Earth, the dinosaurs never existed, and still uses the Oxford comma.
Who is Micah?
Michelle’s mascot, not the pink plush, is known by this moniker.
Who is big puppy?
These file types are used in final logo exports.
What is AI, EPS, JPG, PNG, SVG.
In base-16 (hexadecimal), these stand in for numbers past nine.
What are letters?
These vector control points and handles are used to shape smooth curves in Illustrator.
What are Bézier curves?
This Threadhead relies on water wings and hugs to stay afloat.
Who is Daisha?
A collection of designers are often referred to by this term.
What is a neurotic?