line weight
How thick strokes
Line weight is the thickness or heaviness of a line in drawing, design, or typography.
Varying line weight creates visual hierarchy, depth, and emphasis: The architect used heavier line weight for walls and lighter weight for furniture.
In technical drawing, conventions assign specific weights to different elements—cut lines thicker than hidden lines, for instance.
Courageous and daring
- thinSmall in diameter
- heavyOf great mass
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
thick · fine · medium · variable · consistent · uniform · hierarchy · contrast
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- pencilGraphite writing instrument
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- inkWriting fluid
- contourBounding line of shape
outline · shading · hatching · crosshatch · charcoal · graphite · brush · rendering
Detailed technical drawing
- structuralRelating to building framework
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
- beamStructural support member
- girderMain structural support beam
Character style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- serifLetter terminal flourish
- sans-serifType without terminal strokes
- glyphVisual form of character
kerning · tracking · leading · boldface · hairline · letterform · baseline · legibility
bold
Courageous and daring
delicate · thick · fine · medium · variable · consistent · uniform · hierarchy · contrast · emphasis
stroke
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contour · outline · shading · hatching · crosshatch · charcoal · graphite · brush · rendering · illustration
blueprint
Detailed technical drawing
- structuralRelating to building framework
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
- beamStructural support member
girder · elevation · floor plan · annotation · scale drawing
font
Character style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- serifLetter terminal flourish
- sans-serifType without terminal strokes
glyph · kerning · tracking · leading · boldface · hairline · letterform · baseline · legibility · readability
line weightnegative space
Empty area around forms
white space · fill · gradient · line spacing · dot pattern
line, weight, overweight, lightweight, weighted, heavyweight, weightless, underweight, weighting