Vocabulary

Target Audience - the people you want to attract their attention
Message - telling the audience something
Work Ethic - the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward
Employability Skills - a range of abilities or competencies that you may envelop during your life through your education, training, work experience, interests, and extra-curricular activities
20/20 Rule - something to do with your eyes
Right-To-Know Laws - legal principle that the individual has the right to know the chemicals to which they may be exposed in their daily living
Symbol - something that represents something else
Icon - a picture, image, or other representation
Vector-Based Graph - the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes
Specifications of a project - what your project consists of
Dialog Box - the graphical control element is a small window that communicates information to the user and prompt them for a response
Panel (Palette) - a section of colors
Guidelines - a statement by which to determine a course of action
File Extensions - a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding of its contents or usage
Art Board - a board to put your art paper on
Scratch Area - the area on the right side of the project editor where scripts are assembled
Tool Box - a place where all the tools are
Anchor Points - points where lines meet
Path - a way or track laid on graphs to show where it's going
Direction Handles - consists of direction lines that end in direction points
Close a Path - to close a path
Contextual Menu - a menu in a graphical user interface that appears upon user interaction
Clipping Mask - an object whose shape masks other artwork so that only areas that lie within the shapes are visible
Hue - one of the main properties of a color
Primary Colors - sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors
Secondary Colors - a color made by mixing two or more primary colors in a given color space
Tertiary Colors - a color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color or two secondary colors
Neutral Colors - include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige
Color Schemes - the choice of colors used in design for a range of media
Complementary - combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other or another
Triadic - a group of three
Monochromatic - containing or using only one color
Analogous - comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared
Warm/Cool Colors - warm colors are colors that range from red to lime green. cool colors range from green to red violet
Subtractive Primary Colors - complementary colors: cyan, yellow, and magenta
Additive Primary Colors - primary color elements that make up white lights
Typography - the art and technique of arranging type to make written language
Typeface - a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features
Serif - a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol
Body Type - the specific typeface that is used in the main text
Display Name - name to display what the message is talking about
Reverse Type - white on black
Point Size - how big you want the letter to be
Ligatures - a thing used for tying or binding something tightly
Ampersand - a logogram "&" representing conjunction word "and"
Lowercase - not capitalized
Uppercase - capitalized
Flush Left - alignment of the left side of the page, screen, or margin
Flush Right - alignment of the right side of the page, screen, or margin
Centered - placed or situated in the center
Justified - having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason
Type Family - the distinction between font and type face is that a font designates a specific member of a type family such as roman, boldface, or italic type
Small Caps - uppercase characters set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase letters
Lining - a layer of different material covering the inside surface of something
Non-lining - numerals typeset with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text
Leading - the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type
Margin - the area between the main content of a page and the page edges
Kerning - the process of adjusting the space between characters in a proportional font
Tracking - the space between groups of letters
Concept - an abstract idea
Final Product - a product that is ready for sale without significant further processing
Thumbnail - reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing
Initial Cap - oversized letters at the start of some paragraphs