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analogous color
Art. any one of a group of related colors that are near each other on the color wheel, a circular chart that shows gradations of color: Red, orange, and yellow are analogous colors. Compare complementary color (def 1a). -
calibrate
If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately. -
chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place. -
gray scale
a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography. -
line copy
a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1). -
line drawing
a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.