halftoonist
A halftoonist is an individual who specializes in the creation of halftones, a technique used in printing and visual art to reproduce a range of colors or shades using dots of varying sizes or spacing. Historically, this involved skilled manual work, where artists would painstakingly engrave or draw patterns of dots onto plates for printing. In modern digital contexts, a halftoonist might be a graphic designer or an artist who employs software to simulate this effect, often for artistic or stylistic purposes.
The process of halftoning relies on the principle that the human eye perceives small dots of color
While digital imaging has largely automated the process, the term halftoonist can still refer to someone who