Catalonia PAU Graphic-Plastic Expression Techniques flashcards
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- Visual hierarchy
- The ordering of attention through relative scale, contrast, spacing, grouping and placement, assessed against the message and audience rather than a universal reading path.
- Negative space
- The shaped area surrounding and separating represented objects; its boundaries and proportions participate in the composition instead of merely filling unused background.
- Value
- The perceived lightness or darkness of an area, considered separately from hue when checking structure, contrast, modelling and the readability of a design.
- Hue
- The chromatic family used to describe a color, distinguished from its lightness and saturation and interpreted with the selected color model and viewing conditions.
- Saturation
- The perceived strength of chromatic color relative to a more neutral appearance, whose effect depends on adjacent colors, lightness and the rendering system.
- Scale
- The ratio of a represented length to its corresponding real or model length, calculated after converting both quantities into the same units.
- Proportion
- A relationship among sizes within a form or composition, which can be measured and compared without treating one aesthetic ratio as universally obligatory.
- Perspective
- A method of representing spatial relationships on a plane, whose projection assumptions must be stated before comparing apparent dimensions or the behavior of parallel lines.
- Axonometric projection
- A parallel-projection representation in which the principal spatial directions have defined projected axes and scale factors, rather than distance-dependent central-perspective convergence.
- Central perspective
- A projection model with rays through a common viewpoint, causing suitable directions to meet at vanishing points and apparent size to depend on depth.
- Support
- The material carrying marks or paint, selected with attention to tooth, sizing, strength, moisture response and compatibility with the intended drawing or painting process.
- Binder
- The component that holds pigment particles together and attaches a paint or drawing medium to its support, affecting drying behavior, adhesion and later reactivation.
- Opacity
- The extent to which an applied material obscures what lies beneath, depending on formulation, thickness and application rather than solely on a medium name.
- Registration
- The alignment of separate printing layers or components using reference marks or a suitable system, checked before assuming multiple impressions coincide.
- Relief printing
- A print process in which ink is carried mainly on raised parts of a matrix; the removed regions and image reversal must be understood in context.
- Intaglio
- A family of print processes in which recessed marks retain ink; plate preparation and transfer differ from the raised-surface principle of relief printing.
- Screen printing
- An ink-transfer process through open regions of a mesh stencil, distinguished from the recessed lines of intaglio and raised areas of a relief block.
- Typography
- The selection and arrangement of letterforms, styles and text spacing to support information hierarchy, character recognition and continuous reading for a particular use.
- Kerning
- An adjustment to the spacing of a particular pair of characters, distinct from changing spacing across an entire selected text range.
- Tracking
- An adjustment to spacing across a sequence of characters, evaluated alongside letterforms, text size and line length rather than confused with pair-specific kerning.
- Leading
- The distance between successive text baselines in a layout, checked with line length, type size and content instead of prescribed independently of reading conditions.
- Grid
- An organizing system of columns, rows, margins or modules used to align related content and make deliberate exceptions visible within a coherent composition.
- Prototype
- A model used to test a defined design question before final production, whose fidelity should match what is being investigated rather than imply a finished product.
- Project brief
- A statement of purpose, audience, constraints and success criteria that supports comparison among alternatives and evaluation of the final proposed design.