Images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color)
Artwork to be reproduced with one solid colour. Contrasted with artwork having tone or shading (halftones), or full colour (colour separations)
A drawing rendered in only 100% black and 100% white, with no gray areas (e g , black lines drawn on white substrate or a vector graphic produced by a computer drawing, CAD, or illustration application ) See also: bitmap; object-oriented; raster; vectors
Line art refers to high-contrast, two color images Black type on a white background would be considered line art -- black is one color, white is the other At the other end of the spectrum from line art is continuous tone images such as photographs
Line art consists of non-shaded or non-screened black and white images Line art cannot be continuous tone imagery such as photographs or pencil sketches Some examples of line art are type matter, solid black and white logos, icons or pen-and-ink drawings
[re: images] any image which consists of black and white only, with no tonal values (i e , traditional camera-ready artwork)