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halftone
📅 Updated:2022-11-15
🕒 Created:2021-06-25
🆔 ID:36150
Description
Halftone is a printing technology and a shading technique inspired by it, where a single color of ink is used to suggest a range of tones by filling the space to be shaded with either regularly-spaced circles of varying size, or circles of fixed size and varying spacing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
With black ink on a white background, for example, larger or denser circles suggest darker shades of grey. The technique is also used in full-color CMYK printing and as a special effect in digital art.
See also
- dithering -- related technique on the scale of individual pixels
- screentone -- related technique that uses circles (or other shapes) but with fixed size and spacing
