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Newsprint dot gain

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Cheap newsprint, a zine, a flyer run off on absorbent stock. Over a photograph or a flat fill at 40 to 70%.

LicenceRayzia licence

ByRayzia

How it is madeA 45° dot grid at 82% of the cell instead of a clean halftone's 55%, so neighbours nearly touch, with jitter on both position and radius and a 1.1 blur over the lot. Dot gain is ink wicking sideways into the stock, so the swollen touching silhouette is the whole point; each dot's opacity is scaled by its distance from the border so the field fades out rather than ending. The pitch is coarse (15 units against the halftone stamps' 12) because newsprint is screened at 65 to 85 lines against offset's 150, and because it takes the stamp from 73 KB down to 45.

Size420 × 320 px

FormatSVG, editable paths

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