full color

Not black-and-white

Full color means using the complete range of colors rather than black-and-white, grayscale, or limited palettes.

The term appears most often in printing and publishing contexts: The book features full color illustrations throughout.

A full color print job costs more than one using spot colors or monochrome.

In digital contexts, full color typically means 24-bit color depth or higher.

Related

true to life · chromatic · polychrome · rainbow · spectrum · hue · pigment · rich · brilliant · glossy · glossy pages · coffee table book · print · magazine · photograph · CMYK · ink · dye

Categories
Opposites
chromatic range

full colorblack and white

Without middle ground

monochrome · black-and-white · grayscale · monochromatic · greyscale

Family

full, color, fully, fullness, fuller, fullest, colorful, colorfully, colorless

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Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G