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Graphic Design Glossary

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line art
Black-and-white artwork with no gray areas. Pen-and-ink drawings are line art, and most graphic images produced with desktop publishing graphics programs can be treated as line art.

 

 

line weight
Line weight is a term referring to the thickness of a printing line. Sometimes shapes are drawn with a line weight of zero, and then the fill color is used to define the shape.

 

 

logotype
A symbol, mark, or identifying name.

 

 

low resolution
The term applied to a bitmap graphics file (usually a photographic image) that is only used for positional purposes or 'on-screen' display.






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