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Mind Your Type
The Pea Files
100

The lining up of text or images

What is alignment?

100

Used to share documents keeping the same layout, fonts, and graphics no matter the device

What is a PDF?

100

Document outlines the goals, audience, and requirements of the design project.

What is the brief?

100

Type that is slanted

What is italic?

100

This tool helps you move objects around.

What is the Move Tool?

200

Visual weight of elements in a composition

What is balance?

200

.PNG

What is the image format that supports transparency?

200

Look at similar projects or styles for inspiration and analysis.

What is research?

200

A font that has little 'feet' or strokes

What is serif?

200

This tool samples colors from objects in the document.

What is the Eyedropper Tool?

300

A large difference between two things to create interest and tension

What is contrast?

300

.psd

What is file extension for a saved Photopea file?

300

Designers sketch creative ideas, lists, begin solving the design problem.

What is brainstorming?

300

A font that does NOT have little feet or strokes

What is sans-serif?

300

Key command for copying an element

What is "control > c"?

400

Using visual space to show relationships in your content.

What is proximity?

400

The process of naming, organizing, and storing files so they are easy to find and use later.

What is file management (usually in Google Drive)?

400

Designer starts creating drafts and experimenting with layouts, colors, and type

What is designing?

400

A particular size, weight and style of a typeface

What is a font?

400

In a print piece what should the DPI always be?

What is 300?

500

Using similar visual elements to create unity and flow.

What is repetition?

500

File extension that is ideal for photos and realistic images

What is JPG or JPEG?

500

Presenting or sending the completed work to the client or public.

What is delivery?

500

Typography is the art or procedure of arranging ____

What is text (letters)?

500

Acts as a canvas for your projects.

What is an Artboard?