the height of the lowercase letter “x” representing the most important area of a letterform for 90% of lowercase characters
What is X-Height?
100
An art style that appeared in France after WW1. It combines craft motifs with machine age imagery and materials.
What is Art Deco?
100
A type of intellectual property protection that protects titles and phrases
What is Trademark?
100
In screen printing, the portion of the job that extends beyond the area of the finished print
What is bleed?
100
thin lines placed at the corners of an image, page or artwork layout to indicate where the paper should be trimmed after printing
What are crop marks?
200
the art and process of specifying, setting, or otherwise working with print-quality type, as opposed to typewriting
What is Typography?
200
An art style that was known to praise nonsensical art that came during WW1.
What is Dadaism?
200
A type of intellectual property protection that protects inventions
What is a Patent?
200
Ready-made, royalty-free pieces of printed or computerized graphic art
What is clip art?
200
Visual stair-stepping of edges that occurs in an image when the resolution is too low for the size of the output
What is aliasing?
300
the part of a lowercase letter which rises above the main body, as in the letters “b”, “d”, “h”, or “k”
What is an Ascender?
300
An art style that was popular in the 1910s and 1920s. It took 3D objects and broke them up and painted them.
What is Cubism?
300
the limitations and exceptions to copyright
What is Fair Use?
300
(Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, black) The four process colors used in most analog and digital printing systems
What is CMYK?
300
Refers to images made of rows and columns of monochrome or multi-colored pixels, or dots, for displaying or printing
What is bitmap?
400
the adjusting of the letter spacing throughout a piece of typeset copy
What is Tracking?
400
An art style that began in the 1600s that used clear detail and exaggerated color to create a dramatic painting
What is Baroque?
400
stealing someone else's intellectual property for your own gain
What is Plagiarism?
400
Colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green, that when combined in the right proportions produce white light
What are complementary colors?
400
Refers to images made of rows and columns of monochrome or multi-colored pixels, or dots, for displaying or printing
What is baseline?
500
the reduction of letter spacing between certain character combinations in order to reduce the space between them, performed for aesthetic reasons
What is Kerning?
500
An art style that made paintings look like they do in real life, without exaggeration and exactly as they are happening.
What is Realism?
500
A type of intellectual property protection that protects things like pictures, movies and music from being stolen.
What is Copyright?
500
(Dots Per Inch) A unit of measure used to describe the resolution capability of a given piece of equipment by measuring the number of individual dots the device can reproduce in a linear inch
What is DPI?
500
a halftone illustration made from a single original with two different colors at different screen angles