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A tiny area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed.
What is a Pixel
The thickness of characters
What is Weight
The framed area on a display screen for viewing information.
What is Viewport
An imaginary line traveling from the eye of the spectator to infinity.
What is Line of Sight
A system for matching colors, used in specifying printing inks.
What is Pantone
A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase.
What is a Pictogram
A tool that removes portions of an image. It is usually used on digital photographs.
What is a Crop
To use the colors of two pixels to determine the color of a pixel lying between them. This new pixel then has a value that is the average of the two pixels on either side of it.
What is Dither
The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer.
What is Perspective
The analysis and judgment of the merits and faults of work.
What is Criticism
The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the mean line of a font (the x-height).
What is the Ascender.
An adjective that indicates that something has been custom made for a particular customer or user.
What is Bespoke
A measure of the extent to which the human eye can distinguish between the smallest discrete parts of an image.
What is Resolution
The distance between the nearest and the farthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image.
What is Depth of Field
The evaluation of creative work to maintain or enhance the quality of the work or performance.
What is Critique
A file format that can be viewed, printed, and electronically transmitted that provides an electronic image of text or text and graphics.
What is PDF
Vertical banners that tend to be either 160 x 600 pixels or 120 x 600 pixels which appear as a website ad or social media ad.
What is a Skyscraper
An approach to web page creation that makes use of flexible layouts, flexible images and cascading style sheet media queries.
What is Responsive Design
The spot on the horizon line to which the receding parallel lines diminish. It is what allows us to create drawings, paintings, and photographs that have a three-dimensional look.
What is a Vanishing Point, or Point of Convergence
A 3-point perspective in which the viewer is at a very low angle creating an upward drama, like that of a small child looking up at an adult, or standing beneath a very tall building.
What is a Worm's eye view
A testing environment that isolates untested code changes and experimentation from the production environment or repository.
What is a Sandbox
An outline, a set of charts, a presentation, or a paper prototype solution to a problem.
What is a Strawman
A 3-point perspective in which the viewer is high above the object looking downward and the form appears smaller at it’s base than it’s top.
What is Bird's Eye View
The spot on the horizon line to which the receding parallel lines diminish. It is what allows us to create drawings, paintings, and photographs that have a three-dimensional look.
What is a Vanishing Point, or Point of Convergence