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line art

American  

noun

  1. graphic material that consists of lines or areas of pure black and pure white and requires no screening for reproduction.


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The sequences focused on Little Nicholas’ daily adventures playfully utilize line art and colors to make it seem like they are cartoon strips come to life.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

I was working in these very simple black-and-white line art drawings that I would take to the copy shop and mail in envelopes with stamps to newspapers across the country.

From Slate • May 3, 2021

Her thin, quavering line art telegraphs the main ideas with speed and force.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2019

Scribit is a wall-drawing gadget that turns images sourced from the web into line art.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2019

Technicians used multiple threshold settings, filters, line art and halftone definitions, autosegmentation, windowing, and software-editing programs to optimize image capture.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress