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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