Vocabulary Digital Art Review

Guiding the viewer’s attention to the most important elements of a composition.

• Emphasis
• Unity

• Balance

• Repetition

Creating objects that are different sizes, colors, shapes or fonts.

• Contrast
• Emphasis

• Hierarchy

• Balance

Center of interest in a design, should stand out to your audience.

• Focal Point
• Repetition

• Contrast

• White Space

Items of your design that occur more than once such as objects, color, fonts

• Repetition
• Balance

• White Space

• Contrast

Even distribution of visual weight and elements and it provides stability and structure to composition.

• Balance
• Heirarchy

• White Space

• Contrast

Put related items close together and this shows a relationship

• Proximity
• Balance

• Contrast

• Variety

Organizing your design to emphasize the most important things

• Hierarchy
• Balance

• Repetition

• Unity

Blank space in your design that allows for flow, spacing and alignment.

• White Space
• Unity

• Balance

• Hierarchy

Line up the edges of the elements of your design such as center, left, right, or justified

• Alignment
• Proximity

• Heirarchy

• Balance

A clear relationship between the elements and how well all the elements used in your design project work together

• Unity
• Balance

• Repetition

• Pattern