January Vocab:
Visual Organization...
Vocabulary notes...
Vocabulary Week 16...
Vocabulary Week 9...
Continuous tone image- a picture with unlimited colors and many shades of gray.
Vocabulary Week 8...
Vocabulary Week 3...
Vocabulary Week 4...
Vocabulary Week 5...
Type terms: a distinctive mark or sign .
Visual Organization...
Initial cap: a larger decorative capital letter at the beginning of text/paragraph.
Vocabulary notes...
Flush left- everything's (text) is alined to the left.
Flush right- everything's (text) alined to the right.
Centered- takes individual line of text(s) and centers them. Gives a formal feel!
Justified- text is alined on the left and on the right. In a "box". No text is out side of the box.
Type style/family- bold, italic, small caps, etc fonts.
Small caps- all of our capital letters but they aline at your waist line.
Lining- is uniform, alined at the top and at the bottom.
Non-lining- not uniformed, hangs lower than lining. Mimics a typewriter. Has ascenders and descenders.
Leading- the space in between lines of type.
Margins- white space on top, bottom, and sides of the page. Anything important should stay in the margin, non-important things can go on the outside.
Kerning-
Tracking-
Concept- an idea; something formed in one's mind.
Final product- the end results
Thumbnails- a quick sketch to get your thoughts out of your head and on to paper.
Vocabulary Week 17...Concept- an idea; something formed in one's mind.
Final product- the end results
Thumbnails- a quick sketch to get your thoughts out of your head and on to paper.
Ligatures- the act of tying or binding.
Ampersand- the sign & ______________. (example: Tiffany & Co.)
Small caps- stocks of companies with a market with capitalization less than one million dollars.
Lowercase- smaller letters, opposite of capital letters (uppercase).
Uppercase- capital letters, opposite to small letters (lowercase).
Vocabulary Week 16...
Typography- the style and appearance of printed matter.
Typeface- a particular design of type.
Serif- a slight projection finishing off stroke of a letter, as in T contrasted with &ssT.
Body type- the type of just one section of a design.
Display type- large or eye-catching type used for headings or advertisements.
Reverse type- copy which is printed in white against a color background.
Point size- the size of the font, measured in points.
Continuous tone image- a picture with unlimited colors and many shades of gray.
Resolution- the quality of a picture, photo, etc.
File size- the amount of space a file can hold. Is measured in "bytes".
File size- the amount of space a file can hold. Is measured in "bytes".
Vocabulary Week 8...
Hue- a color or shade.
Primary colors- colors that can't be made by mixing two colors together.
Secondary colors- colors made by mixing two primary colors.
Tertiary colors- colors that are made by mixing all three primary colors. (examples: brown & black)
Neutral colors- a color that matches with anything.
Vocabulary Week 3...
Target audience- your customers, the people you're wanting to please.
Message- the concept you're trying to get across.
Work ethic- how efficiently you work.
Employablility skills- skills that make employers want to hire you.
20/20 rule- every 20 minuets look 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
Right-To-know Laws- laws that state employees have the right to know about all materials and tools.
Palette- a range of tools you can choose from.
Icon- A symbol representing and action or a company.
Vector-based graphics- pictures that stay the same quality no matter how big or small they get.
Specs of a project- the rules you have to go by.
Dialog box- displays current statuses of the application
Guidelines- a line drawn to show you what limits you need to work in.
Extensions- something that is added or made bigger.
Contexual menu- menus that pop up with your signal, for example if you right click on the mouse a contextual menu will pop up giving a bunch of options.
Clipping mask- a tool that makes what ever isn't in the square go away, hides it.
