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When describing art, space can be divided into positive and negative space. Texture is what it feels like to touch something, or what something looks like it might feel like if it were touched.
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- Space - The area or volume that's occupied (or not occupied) by something.
- Texture - The way it feels to touch something, or what something looks like it might feel like if it were touched.
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like lines and shapes, and
put more focus on their characteristics.
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Let's take a look.
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When describing art, space can be divided
into positive and negative space.
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Positive space is the area or
volume that's occupied by something.
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On a webpage,
it might be a block of text, a button, or
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a shape that contains some other elements.
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Negative space is everything else, which
designers sometimes call white space.
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