Elements of Art
The path of a moving point through space.
What is Line?
Red, Blue & Yellow=
Purple, Green & Orange=
What is Primary and Secondary Colors?
A regular arrangement of repeated elements.
What is Pattern?
Written language begins here in 2000 BC with the use of symbols or pictographs such as hieroglyphics.
What is Egypt?
Selecting two or three fonts to use in a design that complement each other in order to more clearly communicate the message of the design.
What is Kerning?
Flat enclosed areas that are two-dimensional.
What is Shape?
One Color + Black=
One Color + White=
One Color + Gray=
What is Shade, Tint, and Tone?
The juxtaposition of different elements of design (ex: rough/smooth, dark/light).
What is Contrast?
Around 1100 AD this style of lettering in books were hand-lettered by scribes.
What is Illuminated Letters?
The organization of elements on the page to draw the reader’s eye to the first, second and third most important messages to be communicated.
What is Hierarchy?
The hue that is produced when light reflects off of an object.
What is Color?
A color scheme where colors sit across from each other on the color wheel.
What is Complimentary?
Special attention or importance given to one part of a work of art.
What is Emphasis?
In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg invented this device which revolutionized the world typography and printing.
What is the Printing Press?
Adjusting the space between pairs of letters so the space between the letters is visually balanced.
What is Kerning?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is Value?
A color scheme using two to four colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel.
What is Analagous?
When the elements of design are arranged symmetrically or asymmetrically to create the impression of equality in weight or importance.
What is Balance?
A historical event occurred in the 1800s increasing the speed of printing even more with the use of machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The space between lines of type, measured in points from baseline to baseline.
What is Leading?
The area around, within, or between objects.
What is Space?
A color scheme made from different colors derived from the same hue by using its tints, shades, and tones.
What is Monochromatic?
The relationship between objects with respect to size, number, and so on, including the relation between parts of a whole.
By 1988, this machine made it possible to do digital publishing from a computer.
What is the Linotype?
A particular design of type, including all of the sizes and variations, like bold and italic.
What is Typeface?