Adobe Illustrator CC Certification
Vocabulary with Complete and Accurate
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Deliverables - ✔✔A predetermined list of items that will be delivered to the customer.
Design principles - ✔✔The essential rules or assembly instructions for art.
Diagonal (lines) - ✔✔Lines traveling neither on a vertical nor a horizontal path. Express growth
or decline and imply movement or change.
Dingbat fonts - ✔✔Also known as wingdings. They are a collection of objects and shapes instead
of letters.
Direction handle - ✔✔A visual feature that displays on a selected curved anchor point that controls
the shape of a curved segment.
Document color mode - ✔✔Determines the color model that Illustrator uses to create the image,
such as RGB or CYMK.
Document window - ✔✔A tabbed window within the Application Frame that contains the artboards
and canvas scratch area.
dpi - ✔✔Stands for dots per inch and refers to the resolution of an image when printed.
Drawing modes - ✔✔Illustrator provides three specific drawing modes: Draw Normal (the default)
Draw Behind: Draw Behind places newly drawn objects behind selected objects
Draw Inside: Draw Inside places newly drawn objects within a selected object.
, Elements of art - ✔✔The building blocks of creative works. They are the "nouns" of design: space,
line, shape, form, texture, value, color, and type.
Embedded - ✔✔Placing a bitmap image as a non-vector object in an Illustrator document. The
image data is stored in the document. See also linked.
Emphasis - ✔✔Describes the focal point to which the eye is naturally and initially drawn in a design.
Fair use - ✔✔A set of rules that specify how and when copyrighted material can be used and that
make sure copyright protection doesn't come at the cost of creativity and freedom.
Feedback loop - ✔✔A system set up to continually encourage and require input and approval on
a project's direction.
Fonts - ✔✔The whole collection of a typeface in each of its sizes and styles.
Form - ✔✔Describes three-dimensional objects, such as spheres, cubes, and pyramids.
Geometric shapes - ✔✔Predictable and consistent shapes, such as circles, squares, triangles, and
stars. They are rarely found in nature and convey mechanical and manufactured impressions
Glyph - ✔✔Each character of a font, whether it is a letter, number, symbol, or swash.
Gradient fill - ✔✔A gradual blend between two or more solid colors. Gradients are created and
edited via the Gradient panel in Illustrator.
Group - ✔✔A collection of objects on an artboard that can be selected as an entire unit for editing and
organizing elements in a design. On the Layers panel, a <Group> listing will display and the collection
of objects will display as individual listings nested within the group.
Isolation mode - ✔✔A special viewing and editing mode that is activated by double-clicking an object or
a group. All other objects are temporarily dimming, thereby limiting editing to only the selected objects.
Vocabulary with Complete and Accurate
Solutions | Graded A+
Deliverables - ✔✔A predetermined list of items that will be delivered to the customer.
Design principles - ✔✔The essential rules or assembly instructions for art.
Diagonal (lines) - ✔✔Lines traveling neither on a vertical nor a horizontal path. Express growth
or decline and imply movement or change.
Dingbat fonts - ✔✔Also known as wingdings. They are a collection of objects and shapes instead
of letters.
Direction handle - ✔✔A visual feature that displays on a selected curved anchor point that controls
the shape of a curved segment.
Document color mode - ✔✔Determines the color model that Illustrator uses to create the image,
such as RGB or CYMK.
Document window - ✔✔A tabbed window within the Application Frame that contains the artboards
and canvas scratch area.
dpi - ✔✔Stands for dots per inch and refers to the resolution of an image when printed.
Drawing modes - ✔✔Illustrator provides three specific drawing modes: Draw Normal (the default)
Draw Behind: Draw Behind places newly drawn objects behind selected objects
Draw Inside: Draw Inside places newly drawn objects within a selected object.
, Elements of art - ✔✔The building blocks of creative works. They are the "nouns" of design: space,
line, shape, form, texture, value, color, and type.
Embedded - ✔✔Placing a bitmap image as a non-vector object in an Illustrator document. The
image data is stored in the document. See also linked.
Emphasis - ✔✔Describes the focal point to which the eye is naturally and initially drawn in a design.
Fair use - ✔✔A set of rules that specify how and when copyrighted material can be used and that
make sure copyright protection doesn't come at the cost of creativity and freedom.
Feedback loop - ✔✔A system set up to continually encourage and require input and approval on
a project's direction.
Fonts - ✔✔The whole collection of a typeface in each of its sizes and styles.
Form - ✔✔Describes three-dimensional objects, such as spheres, cubes, and pyramids.
Geometric shapes - ✔✔Predictable and consistent shapes, such as circles, squares, triangles, and
stars. They are rarely found in nature and convey mechanical and manufactured impressions
Glyph - ✔✔Each character of a font, whether it is a letter, number, symbol, or swash.
Gradient fill - ✔✔A gradual blend between two or more solid colors. Gradients are created and
edited via the Gradient panel in Illustrator.
Group - ✔✔A collection of objects on an artboard that can be selected as an entire unit for editing and
organizing elements in a design. On the Layers panel, a <Group> listing will display and the collection
of objects will display as individual listings nested within the group.
Isolation mode - ✔✔A special viewing and editing mode that is activated by double-clicking an object or
a group. All other objects are temporarily dimming, thereby limiting editing to only the selected objects.
