Elements
A mark with greater length than width; can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.
What is line?
Light reflected off of objects.
What is color?
The path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art.
What is movement?
The feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art, which creates a sense of completeness.
What is unity?
A set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.
What is a typeface or font family?
Three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth
What is form?
The name of the color.
What is hue?
The part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention.
What is emphasis?
Works with pattern to make the work of art seem active.
What is Repetition?
Software for drawing vector shapes.
What is Adobe Illustrator?
Surface quality that can be seen and felt
What is texture?
How bright or dull something is.
What is intensity or saturation?
The use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art.
What is variety?
The arrangement or presentation of elements in a way that implies importance.
What is visual hierarchy?
A framework (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical,horizontal, and angular) or curved guide lines used to structure content.
What is a grid structure?
A closed line.
What is shape?
Subtractive color model, used in color printing,
What is CMYK?
What does the acronym CMYK stand for?
The feeling of unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other.
What is proportion?
Repeating of an object or symbol all over the work of art.
What is Pattern?
Software for laying out multi-paged documents.
What is Adobe InDesign?
The area between and around objects; can be negative and positive; creates a feeling of depth.
What is space?
How light or dark something is.
What is value or brightness?
The distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space.
What is balance?
What are the two types of balance?
Created when one or more elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement.
What is rhythm?
Software designed to edit pixel or raster graphics.
What is Adobe Photoshop?