Digital Design Glossary

noun a category of typefaces that have a more mechanical appearance and are typically used for text that will be reproduced by a printing process such as offset printing or letterpress printing

• The newspaper was printed using the cold type method.
• I prefer reading books in cold type rather than digital format.
• I can't stand reading anything in cold type, it hurts my eyes.
• His writing style is like cold type, precise and unemotional.

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

adjective a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

• The scientist studied the properties of transparent things under a microscope.
• I love looking at all the cool transparent things in the science museum.
• Check out these see-through things, they're pretty neat!
• In their relationship, they always strived to be transparent about things.