oDesk Web Graphics Design Test Answers 2015



_______ and _________ are the most important visual cues we can use to determine or create depth and volume in compositions.
Ans: a) Light, shadow

_______ is anything that gives a distinctive appearance to the surface of a design.
Ans: b) A pixel

___________ is an eight bit format that compresses files on the basis of the 
number of colors in the image.
Ans: a) GIF

_____________ is the process of adjusting the space between individual letters.
Ans: b) Kerning

________is a principle of design that has to do with the differences in the scale of objects.
Ans: a) Proportion

A /An________ color scheme consists of a single base color and any number of tints or shades of that color.
Ans: c) monochromatic

Any area of a page that is not covered by type or illustrations is known as _____.
Ans: a) blank space
b) white space

By combining black with which color can a design get a technical feel?
Ans: a) White

By which 'magical number' should a line's length be divided so that it can be bisected using the golden ratio?
Ans: c) 1.62

Didot is a ________ serif font.
Ans: b) sans

For which purpose has the JPEG format been developed?
Ans: a) It has been developed to store photographic images

In photoshop adjustments, the Hue color affects the overall _________ of the image.
 Ans: b) color

In print design language, the vertical space between the lines of the text is known as ____________.
Ans: a) leading

Most font families include the regular font face along with italic, bold and ________ variants.
Ans: a) bold italic

State whether True or False.
A focal point is the point where the different elements of a composition interact with one another.
Ans: a) True.

State whether True or False.
Colors are displayed in percentages of red, green, and blue light in an additive color model.
Ans: a) True

State whether True or False.
Complementary color schemes consist of colors that are located opposite each other on the color wheel.
Ans: a) True.

State whether True or False.
CSS borders provide myriad of possible effects that do not rely on extra images.
Ans: a) True

State whether True or False.
The lesser the difference between a graphic element and its surroundings, the more that element will stand out.
Ans: b) False

State whether True or False.
The lower angled strokes in the letters "K" , "R" and "Q" are known as legs.
Ans: a) True.

The ____ is the end of the content that users can see on a page before they scroll down.
Ans: d) fold

The curved angle that connects the terminal of the stroke to the serif is known as a___________.
Ans: a) bracket

What does proximity refer to in the design theory?
Ans: c) It is way to make a group of objects feel like a single unit

What does SIFR stand for?
Ans: a) Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

What does the 'brightness' of an image refer to?
Ans: a) It refers to the overall amount of light or darkness in the image.

What does the saturation of a color mean?
Ans: c) The saturation of a color is determined by a combination of light intensity and how much it is distributed across the spectrum of dofferent wavelengths.

What does the term 'typo' stand for?
Ans: b) Writing mistakes

What is a comprehensive dummy?
Ans: a) It is a complete simulation of a printed layout that is created before the layout goes to the press

What is a split-complementary color scheme?
Ans: b) It is a color scheme that uses the two colors adjacent to the base color’s complement

What is an analogous color scheme?
Ans: d) It is a color scheme that consists of colors that are adjacent to ona another on the color wheel

What is the 'core purpose' of web designing?
Ans: a) Communication

What is the 'rule of thirds'?
Ans: b) A line bisected by the golden ratio and divided into two sections, one of which is approximately twice the size of the other

What is the bowl of a letter?
Ans: a) it is the rounded curve that encloses negative space in a letter form

What is the imaginary horizontal line on which most of the characters sit called?
Ans: d) Baseline

What is the term given to the process of cropping, resizing and modifying the pictures found while searching with search engines and using them for one's own site?
Ans: b) Google Ganking

What is typography?
Ans: b) It is the arrangement of familiar sets of shapes to make words, sentences and paragraphs

Which font should be used for illustrations and art work that is to be incorporated into the design of a website?
Ans: a) Dingbat font

Which is the most common and expressive element of a graphic design?
Ans: c) Shape

Which is the type of symmetry which is applied to web site layouts by centering the content or balancing in between columns?
Ans: a) Horizontal symmetry

Which kind of font do 'Wingdings' and 'Webdings' fall under?
Ans: b) Dingbat font

Which of the following is one of the ways to avoid pixelation of an image to be published on the web?
Ans: c) Despeckle the image

Which of these adds richness and visual interest to all types of design?
Ans: b) Typography

Which of these color mixtures creates the color vermilion?
Ans: b) Red-orange

Which of these does not fall in the category of 'warm colors'?
Ans: d) Blue

Which of these is a method to create 'emphasis' in a design?
Ans: d) Isolation

Which of these is an advantage of liquid-width layout?
Ans: c) This layout adapts to most screen resolutions and devices

Which of these is not a kind of freeform shape?
Ans: a) Ellipeses

Which of these is not a possible value for background-repeat?
Ans: b) Repeat-xy

Which one of the following fonts does not come under 'the safe list'?
Ans: e) All of the above are safe