Illustration: Halftone line

An editorial black-and-white style: one black ink on warm paper, figures drawn with a confident, slightly wobbly line that stops short instead of closing, and every grey made of printed-looking dots. It suits calm, human product moments: collaboration, reviews, commutes, focus time.

Boundary: for a single continuous line with off-register colour patches use illustration-one-line; for thick brush outlines with a second flat ink use illustration-two-colour-brush; for thin indigo interiors with sparse colour accents use illustration-line-interior. If the brief wants any colour, this is the wrong skill.

Extracted from a set of 42 original design-and-coding cards in 14 styles; the three cards in examples/ are this style's shipped cards.

The look in one sentence

Black line and black dots on warm paper, nothing else: every grey is a field of jittered halftone dots whose size tracks the tone, and the line around it is left open.

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