duotone

[ doo-uh-tohn, dyoo- ]
/ ˈdu əˌtoʊn, ˈdyu- /

adjective

of two tones or colors.

noun

a picture in two tones or colors.
Printing.
  1. a method of printing an illustration either in a dark and a tinted shade of the same color or in two different colors from two plates of a monochrome original made from negatives at different screen angles.
  2. an illustration printed by this method.

Origin of duotone

First recorded in 1905–10; duo- + tone

Words nearby duotone

duodenum, duologue, duomo, duopoly, duopsony, duotone, duotype, dup, dup., duparc, dupatta

Example sentences from the Web for duotone

  • Beautiful results are obtained in two colors by the "duograph" or "duotone" processes, the plates being made for two printings.

    The Building of a Book |Various

British Dictionary definitions for duotone

duotone
/ (ˈdjuːəˌtəʊn) /

noun printing

a process for producing halftone illustrations using two shades of a single colour or black and a colour
a picture produced by this process