9: Text Information and Media

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Simple and flexible format of presenting information or conveying ideas whether hand-written, printed, or displayed on-screen.

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Text

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“Any human-readable sequence of characters” that can form intelligible words

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Text

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3 Types of Text

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Hypertext
Plaintext or Unformatted Text
Formatted Text

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It serves to link different electronic documents and enable users to jump from one file to another in a nonlinear way

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Hypertext

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Fixed sized characters having essentially the same type of appearance

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Plaintext

Unformatted Text

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Text whose appearance can be changed using various font parameters

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Formatted Text

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6 Common Types of File Formats

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TXT
RTF
DOC/DOCX
XLS/XLSX
PPT/PPTX
PDF

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Plaintext file with no formatting

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TXT

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Default format for the Notepad App in Windows as well as most other text editors

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TXT

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RTF

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Rich Text Format

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Widely accepted generic word processing format that nearly all word processing applications can read and write

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RTF

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Includes basic text formatting options including fonts, attributes, paragraph indentations, margins, bullets and numberings, and headers/footers.

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RTF

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The current format for Microsoft Word documents and is also used by many other word processing applications for compatibility with MS Word

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DOC/DOCX

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Earlier versions of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents used in 2003 and earlier and are still supported

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DOC
XLS
PPT

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Used by the spreadsheet application MS Excel as its default format

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XLS/XLSX

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Used by the presentation application MS PowerPoint as it’s default format

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PPT/PPTX

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PDF

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Portable Document Format

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The default format for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader

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PDF

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Format designed to make document formatting consistent when distributing documents across platforms to make sure that the file looks the same, without any variation in fonts or spacing

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PDF

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Also called font, font type, or type

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Typeface

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Refers to the representation or style of text in the digital format

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Typeface

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Usually comprised of alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols and other special characters

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Typeface

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5 Types of typefaces

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Serif
Sans Serif
Slab Serif
Script
Decorative

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Typeface that connotes formality and readability in large amounts of text

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Serif

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Usually used for body text of books, newspapers, magazines, and research publications

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Serif

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Gives off a classic or elegant look when used for titles of headings

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Serif

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Brings clean or minimalist look to the text

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Sans Serif

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Used for clear and direct meaning of text such as road signage, building directory or nutrition facts in food packages

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Sans Serif

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Gives a modern look and is used primarily in webpage design

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Sans Serif

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Carries a solid or heavy look to the text and can be used for large advertising signs on billboards

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Slab Serif

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Draws much attention to itself because of its brush-like strokes

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Script

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Typeface that must be used sparingly and not to be used in large body texts

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Script

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Usually used in wedding invitation cards or other formal events

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Script

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Caters to a wide variety of emotions or themes

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Decorative

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7 Design Principles and Elements

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1. Emphasis 2. Appropriateness 3. Proximity 4. Alignment 5. Organization 6. Repetition 7. Contrast

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Design principle and element pertaining to the importance or value given to a part of the text content

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Emphasis

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Forms of emphasis

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``` Bold text Italicized heavier weight darkened/lightened enlarged ```

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How fitting or suitable the text is used for a specific audience, purpose, or event

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Appropriateness

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How near or how far the text elements are from each other. | Bringing text with similar context closer together

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Proximity

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How the text is positioned in the page

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Alignment

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4 types of Alignment

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Left Center Right Justified

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The conscious effort to organize the different text elements in a page ensuring that while some text elements are separated from each other, they are still somehow connected with the rest of the elements

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Organization

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Consistency of elements and the unity of the entire design

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Repetition

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Repeating some typefaces within the page

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Repeition

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Creates visual interest making two elements different from each other

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Contrast

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7 Principles of Design in Visual Media

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``` Emphasis Alignment Balance Contrast Movement Repetition/Rhythm Unity ```

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Provides stability and structure to a design

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Balance

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The distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space

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Balance

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3 forms of Balance

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Symmetrical Asymmetrical Radial

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Balance where the page elements are centered, creating mirror images.

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Symmetrical

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Elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side

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Symmetrical

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Balance where there is an odd number of elements of off-centered elements in a page

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Asymmetrical

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Sides are different but still looked balance

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Asymmetrical

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Balance where elements on the page radiate from a central point

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Radial

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The path our eyes follow when we look at a work of art

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Movement

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Its purpose is to create unity in the artwork with eye travel which can be achieved using repetition, rhythm, and action

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Movement

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Ties the work together by relating the various components of a work together

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Movement

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The repetition of visual movement (colors, shapes, or lines)

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Rhythm

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Essential to keep rhythms exciting and active and to avoid monotony

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Variety

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Part of the design that catches the viewer's attention

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Emphasis

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Used by artists to create dominance and focus in their work

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Emphasis

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Differences in values, colors, textures, shapes and other elements

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Contrast

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Create visual excitement and add interest to the work, occurring when two parts of a design are different

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Contrast

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One way of emphasizing parts of a layout or guiding the readers' eyes to specific areas of the page

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Contrast

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The feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art creating a sens eof completeness

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Unity

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Provides the cohesive quality that makes an artwork feel complete and finished

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Unity

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Principle of design governing how text and graphics lne up with each other

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Alignment