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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Example Sentences

The teaser hearkened back to its roots with simple line art tracing out the Seattle skyline and a new recording of Grammer performing the show’s “Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs” theme.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

As Wired reports, some of the first uses of still GIFs were logos, charts, and line art.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2022

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

Then began Bess: "Maiden, seated on the shoulders of the steed, tell me, pouring forth in thy turn words of answer, what is thy name, and of what line art thou born?"

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus