Web Design & Graphic Design, most of us might not even know that there is a thin line of difference between both these design portals. Even though, the physical appearance of both these may look same, but there is a significant difference between both, web design and graphic design. Reading this article further will make a clear idea of the difference between graphic design and web design.
What is Graphic Design?
As the word itself says, graphic design is the process that includes creating graphics, typography and images just used to present an idea, to take print out for various marketing purpose. It is simply the digital graphics which are later on turned into brochures, posters or any other branding material. Graphic designs does not need any kind of programming.
What is Web Design?
Not only graphics and typography, Gold Coast Web Design is a lot more than this. Web design is all about perfection with certain restrictions. A web design can even be referred as technical graphic design which should make a website load fast and run efficiently. Web design should be made by keeping everything in mind, such as size, screen, resolution and many other things that can make a eCommerce web design into a running website.
Let us have a look on some of the major differences between the web design and graphic design.
RESOLUTION
Resolution here means the quality of the image used in the web design or the graphic design. The resolution of the image can be measured in terms of pixels. This is one of the major difference between graphic design and web design. While graphic designing, it may not be necessary to take care of the pixel perfect images, but when designing a website, as if the image is not pixel perfect, the website will load slower. And if the website takes time to load, it will no longer experience visits.
IMAGE FILES
Image files are of two types : JPEGs and GIFs. JPEG image format makes the image crystal clear that retains color and details found in the photographs and graphics with various color blends. These are the necessity things to be kept in mind while designing a website. Whereas, while graphic designs, these things are not the restrictions, it can work if it does not have perfection.
Images with JPEG and GIF format play a different role. JPEG image may appear fuzzy whereas GIF may appear grainy. So, when working with graphic designing, you can make the images work in any form, JPEG is default as well as preferable. When working with website designing, GIFs works best with images having some of the color variations.
FONTS
This is an important and major difference between both the types of design. When working with graphic designs, the final design will display font that would be specified during the design process. Even if there are some font error in the brochure, reader won’t put back it without reading. But web designer can never create any kind of error related to fonts as that can change the entire way in which the website is displayed.
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