Design Terminology

- Contrast (Size contrast, shape contrast, texture/color contrast):the state of being strikingly different from something else

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- Emphasis:special importance, value, or prominence given to something

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- Balance (informal balance, and formal balance):a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.

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1. Formal balance, also called symmetrical balance, is a concept of aesthetic composition involving equal weight and importance on both sides of a composition.

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- Proportion:a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

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- Perspective: the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

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