half tone
Smallest Western step
A halftone is a printing technique that reproduces continuous-tone images using dots of varying sizes.
Photographs in newspapers and magazines are halftones—look closely and you'll see the dot pattern.
The term also appears in music, where a half tone (two words) is the smallest interval in Western scales, the distance between adjacent piano keys: C to C-sharp is a half tone.
- blackDarkest possible hue
- grayNeutral achromatic hue
- paperPressed pulp for writing
- whiteAbsence of pigment
- stepFoot movement forward
mezzotint · print · accidental · grayscale · Ben-Day dots · dot matrix · flat · sharp · photogravure · dithering · screen · dot · pitch · key · screen printing · lithography · pixelation · offset printing
half tonewhole tone
Interval of two semitones
whole step · octave · fifth · fourth · third
half tonecontinuous tone
Uninterrupted audio frequency
line art · solid color · flat color · duotone
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