| A | B |
|---|
| Italics | A typeface that shows movement (because it's angled) |
| Focal Point | Used to attract a viewer's attention |
| Proof | Looks similar the final job |
| Drop cap | The large letter that used at the beginning of a paragraph |
| Principles of design | Balance, Rhythm, Emphasis, Unity |
| Back-up | Saving files to another location |
| Thumbnails | Quick sketches to help form ideas |
| Roughs | Developed from thumbnails, a little neater and color indicated |
| Ligature | Two letters that are joined together |
| Thought process | Thumbnails and roughs in a portfolio can show this |
| Points | Type is measured in |
| Approved Disposal Container | Safest way to discard of used X-acto blades |
| Raster | Software used for editing continuous tone images (Photos) |
| Neutral colors | Most professional colors of mat board |
| Rhythm | Recurring lines, shapes, etc. in adesign |
| Purpose | A designer needs to know this to begin a design project |
| RAM (Random access memory) | Temporary memory |
| Optimize | A way to make a file for the web small while maintaining quality |
| Baseline | Imaginary line that letters sit on |
| Resize art with loss of quality | Advantage of vector art |
| Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black | The color of toner used in 4-color printing |
| Hard copy | Output from a printer to show a design |
| Command-C (mac) or Control-C | Shortcut to copy |
| Unity | When all elements in a design look like they belong together |
| Constructive | Critique criticism should be this |
| 72ppi | Best resolution for web graphics |
| Easily recognizable | A logo should be this |
| Shade | Adding black to a color |
| Tint | Adding white to a color |
| Works, Organizes, Attracts | A good layout does this |
| Perspective | Converging lines and vanishing points are associated with this |
| Analogous | Three colors next to each other on the color wheel |
| DPI | Dots per inch |
| PPI | Pixels per inch |
| White | When all colors in the RGB/Additive color theory are added together, you get this |
| Target Audience | It is important to understand this when discussing a project with a client |
| Software | A program on a computer |
| Desired portion | The crop tool allows you to choose this |
| Constantly | A designer should save work |
| Brainstorm, Research, Thumbnails, Rough, Final | The proper order of the design process |
| Complementary | Colors across from each other on the color wheel |
| Leading | Space between baselines of type |
| Elements of Design | Line, Shape, Texture, Space, Size, Value, Color |
| Red, yellow, blue | Primary colors on the subtractive color wheel |
| Red, green, blue | Colors used to create imaged on a computer monitor |
| Graphic designer | Layout ads in a magazine |
| Peripheral | Anything that expands a computer's capability |
| Billboard | Conveys a single message |
| 12-15 best samples of work | Professional portfolio |
| Set the tone or mood of a situation | Psychology of color |
| Scanner | Used to digitize art |
| Horizontal | Landscape paper orientation |
| Vertical | Portrait paper orientation |
