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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