Typography Terms
Art History
Misc. Art Terms
Printmaking Tools
Elements of Art
All About Color
100
Typography is the study of what?
What is text?
100
These signs were created to protest for the ability of Black folks to receive the same rights as their White peers during this movement of American history.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
100
Created from the burning of trees to produce this black, powdery substance, they can be used to draw with a range of values.
What is charcoal?
100
What is the name of this tool?
What is a brayer?
100
A straight or curved marked that connects two points.
What is line?
100
Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel are considered what? Remember, peanut butter and jelly!
What are compliments?
200
The curved line on the edge of a letter to define its shape. Used in essay texts.
What is a serif?
200
This linocut by Elizabeth Catlett, a Black printmaker, was made to describe the process of Harriet Tubman helping people during this tragedy of American history.
What was American Slavery?
200
Small sketches of an idea that are not detailed to prepare for a final drawing.
What are thumbnails?
200
What is the name of this tool?
What is a baren?
200
A two-dimensional; enclosed spaced that can be both geometric and organic. Includes squares, circles, and triangles.
What is a shape?
200
Two starkly different values against each other creates an edge that is called what? Synonymous with juxtaposition/difference.
What is contrast?
300
The vertical space between lines of text.
What is leading?
300
Letterpress printing, before the invention of the printing press, was developed in the 15th century by Johannes Gutenberg, who used this method to mass produce this religious text.
What is a bible?
300
A drawing of a person that typically only goes above the shoulders. The Mona Lisa is an example of this.
What is a portrait?
300
What type of material is this block made out of?
What is linoleum?
300
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
300
What are the 3 primary colors?
What are red, yellow, and blue?
400
The space between special characters.
What is kerning?
400
This famous print, known as Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa by artist Katsushika Hokusai (1831, Japan), was made by carving this hard, brown material and printing on it in layers.
What is wood?
400
Using carving tools on linoleum blocks to create a designed stamp and transferring this to paper.
What is a linocut?
400
A work of art that is made by transferring an image from a matrix onto paper, usually using a type of press. Can be made from wood, metal, limestone, etc.
What is a print?
400
The perception of light reflected on the surface of shapes and forms. Synonymous with the word "hue."
What is color?
400
Triadic color schemes have 3 different colors. That means on a color wheel, the shape that forms between them is what shape?
What is a triangle?
500
This type of font is commonly used for headings and small amounts of words. Synonymous with "showcase font."
What is a display font?
500
This piece, known as Head of a Negro, is by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet. She was the first known Black and indigenous person to graduate from this college. Hint: Your art teacher also went to this college.
What is RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)?
500
Art that is created by removing material to produce a product is described as this.
What is subtractive?
500
The technical term for the blade on a lino-carving tool.
What is a gouge?
500
A three-dimensional shape that has a height, width, and depth. Can be geometric or organic.
What is form?
500
Tetradic color schemes have 4 different colors on the color wheel. That means on the color wheel, the shape that forms between them is what shape?
What is a rectangle?