Benday dots
Benday Dots is a printing technique developed by Benjamin (Ben) Day. ( English dot = spot, point)
In this printing process, areas of a different color are created from small dots printed in color. Depending on the effect you want to achieve, the dots are printed close to each other or overlapping. Thus, benday dots represent a postmodern , printable manifestation of pointillism .
Comic book publishers first used this technique in the 1950s and 1960s to create shading and secondary colors in a cheap way using dots printed in primary colors . Roy Lichtenstein used the technique as a stylistic element in his works of art that were first painted in the original and then transferred to the printing technique. As a characteristic, however, areas with dots alternate with him, which are often so large that they in turn depict small areas per se .
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