Design has its own language, and understanding key design terms will help you communicate your ideas clearly. Here's a rundown of 65 design terms you should know.
Here's a full rundown of this course:
00:00:00 1.0 65 Design Terms You Should Know
00:00:54 2.0 10 Essential Design Principles
00:03:58 3.0 11 Important Color Definitions
00:07:00 4.0 8 Important Technical Terms
00:09:08 5.0 18 Typography Terms
00:13:33 6.0 8 Logo Design Styles
00:15:38 7.0 10 Must-Know File Formats
Here's where each term appears in the video:
01:18 - Composition and Layout
01:36 - Balance
01:50 - Alignment
02:02 - Repetition
02:12 - Contrast
02:25 - Negative Space
02:36 - Hierarchy
02:54 - Symmetry vs. Asymmetry
03:16 - Grid
04:20 - CMYK vs. RGB
04:56 - Grayscale
05:10 - Opacity
05:24 - Saturation
05:37 - Hue
05:50 - Tone
05:57 - Tint
06:09 - Shade
06:19 - Color Palette
06:33 - Pantone System
07:17 - Resolution
07:33 - Pixels
07:46 - PPI vs. DPI
08:11 - Crop vs. Close Crop
08:32 - Trim Size
08:43 - Rule of Thirds
09:25 - Serif vs. Sans Serif
10:02 - Scriptfont
10:16 - Slab Serif Font
10:30 - Monospace
10:43 - Kerning & Tracking
11:06 - Leading
11:19 - Weight
11:35 - Point Size
11:47 - Upper Case & Lower Case
12:21 - Small Caps
12:38 - Lorem Ipsum
12:51 - Readability vs. Legibility
13:05 - Widows & Orphans
13:49 - Lettermark or Monogram
14:07 - Wordmark
14:14 - Pictorial Mark
14:25 - Abstract Mark
14:36 - Emblem
14:53 - Mascots
15:01 - Combinations
15:12 - Favicon
15:55 - Raster Image
16:09 - GIF
16:25 - JPEG
16:41 - PNG
16:54 - TIFF
17:08 - PSD File
17:15 - Vector
17:32 - AI File
17:44 - EPS File
17:59 - PDF File
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