Adobe Illustrator Terms Flashcards
Icon
Used to represent a particular category of an object. Designed to be similar to the actual product. Easy for anyone to understand what the icon represents.
Symbol
Signs that are associated with an object or phenomenon over a long period of time. Do not resemble what they stand for, and have to be learned by people to understand what they mean.
Scale
The ratio of size in a map, model, drawing, or plan.
Floorplan
A scale diagram of the arrangement of rooms in one story in a building.
ANSI safety colours
American National Standard Safety Colours. Establishes the technical definitions, standards, and tolerances for safety colours that encourage sign, label, and tag uniformity.
ANSI safety signs
Internationally recognized pictograms that are quickly understood by a global workforce.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
Guidelines
Rulers that help you accurately place and measure objects in the illustration window or in an artboard. Aren’t printed.
Portrait
Oriented vertically
Landscape
Oriented horizontally
Typeface
A design for a set of characters (font is the size and weight). Ex. Times New Roman, Arial, Book Antiqua.
PDF format
Portable document format. A file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. Can lock settings, so others can’t edit. etc.
Path
A line. Made up of a series of anchor points and line segments between those points.
Anchor point
Makes up a path. Anchor points on either end of a path have “control handles” which can be used to control the direction of the path.
Control points
A point that can be controlled to specify a curve direction of a path.
