Vocabulary


Vocabulary

Target Audience: 

A group of people or person you are advertising to

Message: 

To text

Work Ethic:

The principle that hard work is rewarding

Employability skills: 

Range of abilities developed throughout your lifetime 

20/20 rule: 

Rest every 20 mins, look at something 20 feet away for 20 

secs

Right-To-Know Laws: 

A federal law that requires businesses to inform the buyers of

 any harmful ingredients if they are using any in their 

products

Symbol:
A symbol is a thing that represents and stands for something


Icon: 

An icon is a representative symbol known all around 

the world



Vector-based graph: 

A vector-based graph is a graph made by a vector-

based program

Specifications of a project: 

The specifics that are required of one's project

Dialog box: 

A box or shape that indicates speech

Palette: 

A range of colors 

Guidelines: 

A general rule or step

File Extensions: 


A group of letters occurring after a period in a file name, indicating the format of the file.

Contextual Menu: 

A pop-up menu in a graphic user interface that 

appears with user interaction, like a right mouse click.

Clipping mask: 

A shape that masks other objects so that the areas 

lying within the mask are visible.

Hue: 

A color or shade of a certain color

Primary colors: 

A group of colors that mix to form secondary colors.

For example, red and blue (primary colors) makes

purple (secondary colors)

Secondary Colors:

Colors formed from primary colors

Tertiary Colors: 

Colors formed from secondary colors

Neutral colors: 

Colors that are not bold and match well with many and

most colors
 
Color Schemes:

A specific arrangement or combination of colors

Complementary:

Combining in a way that emphasizes and enhances

each other

Analogous:

Corresponding in a particular way or form

Triadic:

Consisting of or having three parts or three closely

related things

Monochromatic:

Containing only one color

Cool Colors:

Colors that are calm and soothing. They can be hues

of blue, green, blue violet, and gray

Warm Colors:

Colors that are vivid and bold in nature. They can be

hues of red, yellow, brown, and tan

Subtractive Primary Colors:

The colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK)

Additive Primary Colors:

The colors that make up white light. They are the colors

red, green and blue (RGB)

Typography: 

The appearance of printed and typed matter

Typeface: 

A design for a set of characters (ex. Times New

Roman, Impact, Helvetica)

Serif:

A short line that stems from and at and angle to the

upper and lower strokes of a letter

Body type: 

The font commonly used for text of a piece of printed

matter

Display type: 

Large and eye-catching font used for headlines or titles

Reverse type: 

The process of printing light or white text on a dark or 

black surface

Point size:

The size of the font used 

Ligatures: 

The combination of two or more letters

Ampersand: 

The sign & (stands for "and")

Lowercase: 

A letter of a particular form often different and smaller 

than its corresponding uppercase letter

Uppercase: 

A letter of a particular form often different and bigger 

than its corresponding lowercase letter

Flush left: 

Text aligned along the left margin

Flush right: 

Text aligned along the right margin

Centered: 

Text aligned in the center of the page

Justified: 

Text that is aligned so that the print fills a space evenly 

or forms a straight edge at one or both of the margins

Type Family: 

A font that sticks to a certain style (ex. italics)

SMALL caps: 

A style of text that makes words less obtrusive or to 

give it more emphasis

Lining: 

A layer of different material covering the inside surface 

of something

Non-lining: 

A numerals typeset with varying heights in a fashion

that resembles a typical line of running text 

Leading:

The amount of black space between lines of print 

Margin: 

The edge or border of something

Kerning: 

To adjust the spacing between letters and characters in 

a piece of text

Tracking: 

A structure consisting of parallel lines

Concept: 

An abstract idea

Final product: 

The ending product of a design 

Thumbnail:

A small image of a picture

Initial cap:

First letter of a word or name

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