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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.
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