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line art

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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

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

Traditionally, it was so they could reproduce line art from pencils.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2017

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

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