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Sans Serif
A style of typeface that means "without feet." Common sans
serif typefaces include Arial, Helvetica, AvantGarde and Verdana. The
following graphic image shows sans serif typefaces:
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.
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