Back to basics: Glossary of design term
Skill Level: Novice

Glossary: S

Sans Serif
A style of typeface that means "without feet." Common sans serif typefaces include Arial, Helvetica, AvantGarde and Verdana.

Saturation
The color intensity of an image. An image high in saturation will appear to be very bright. An image low in saturation will appear to be duller and more neutral. An image without any saturation is also referred to as a grayscale image.

Screen Font
A part of the font suitcase (of Adobe Type 1 fonts), describes the shape of each character to the operating system so that the font can be seen on a computer screen.

Search Engine
A search engines is a program that searches documents (i.e. web pages, which are HTML-documents) for specified keywords and returns the list of documents. A search engine has two parts, a spider and an indexer. The spider is the program that fetches the documents, and the indexer reads the documents and creates an index based on the words or ideas contained in each document.

Serif
A style of typeface that has "little feet." Common serif typefaces include Times Roman, Garamond, and Palatino. The following graphic image shows serif typefaces.

Spider/Robot
A software program that search engines use which visits every site on the web, follows all of the links, and catalogs all of the text of every web page that (a) contains text, and (b) it is able to visit or crawl.

Contents - Alphabetically sorted

• Glossary: A
• Glossary: B
• Glossary: C
• Glossary: D
• Glossary: E
• Glossary: F
• Glossary: G
• Glossary: H
• Glossary: I
• Glossary: J
• Glossary: K
• Glossary: L
• Glossary: M
• Glossary: N
• Glossary: O
• Glossary: P
• Glossary: Q
• Glossary: R
• Glossary: S
• Glossary: T
• Glossary: U
• Glossary: V
• Glossary: WXYZ

++ Back to top ++