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A staggered grid of black dots swells slowly from invisible at the top to almost solid at the bottom.
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Halftone Fall

No. 2 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA staggered grid of black dots swells slowly from invisible at the top to almost solid at the bottom.

What it meansThis is how printers make grey from only black: size, not tone. Here the method is the picture.

Where it worksFor a hallway or stair wall, where the eye travels down with it.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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Black dots stand in exact rows on a warm grey ground, and one clay-red dot near the lower right has slipped from its place.Out of LineNo. 3
About nine hundred gold dots, each turned 137.5 degrees from the last, fan out from the centre into a large disc on black.SunflowerNo. 4
Rings of evenly spaced cream dots grow outward from a small orange centre and run off all four edges of a navy ground, each ring turned slightly from the one inside it and its dots a little fuller.RingsNo. 5
A curving line of eleven teal dots on bone swells from a speck in the upper left to a broad circle at the lower right.CrescendoNo. 6
Dots step from dense navy at the top through a sand-flecked dusk to a ring of growing sand dots around a bare cream sun on the horizon. Below it a navy sea carries a path of sand dots, broken into short ripples, that widens as it comes forward.Pointillist SunsetNo. 7
Hundreds of tiny grey stars cover a deep blue-black ground, thickening into a faint lane that runs up from the lower left. Five groups of brighter cream stars of different sizes are joined by fine lines that stop just short of each star.Invented StarsNo. 8
A coral halftone disc at the upper left and a blue one at the lower right overlap on paper; where their dots cross they print a deep violet and a faint moiré appears.Riso OffsetNo. 9
A grid of small indigo dots covers a bone ground. Inside a tall pointed arch the dots grow to almost touching, so the arch reads as solid from across the room and as a screen of dots close up. A single gold dot sits under its point.Halftone ArchNo. 10

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