duotone

American  

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

adjective

1. of two tones or colors.

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noun

1. a picture in two tones or colors.

2. 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.

duotone British  

/ ˈdjuːəˌtəʊn /

noun

1. a process for producing halftone illustrations using two shades of a single colour or black and a colour

2. a picture produced by this process

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Etymology

Origin of duotone

First recorded in 1905–10; duo- + tone

Example Sentences

The Wailers in their 1965 outfits split down the middle, half-beige, half-black The duotone stage outfit didn’t last long, says Chuck Pennington, an adviser to Dellaccio’s photo collection.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2021

One example is the 2012 cotton blanket by the Index Collection that fabulously illustrates the tonal gradations of color printing — monotone, duotone and multitone — from pale to intense.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018

One example is the 2012 cotton blanket from the Index Collection that fabulously illustrates the tonal gradations of color printing — monotone, duotone and multitoned — from pale to intense.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018

Although they were wearing black and white, the duotone effect was lost in the chaos.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2011

With a rare portrait of Nell Gwyn in duotone, from an engraving of the painting by Sir Peter Lely, as a frontispiece.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark