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 MustKnow 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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