Ben-Day Dots
A printing technique that builds tones and colors from patterns of small dots. Illustrator Benjamin Day patented it in 1879, and Roy Lichtenstein enlarged the dots in 1960s pop art paintings.
Spot it
- 01Large visible dot grid
- 02Flat primary colors
- 03Thick black outlines
Why it happens
Colored ink is printed as a regular dot screen; the dots are too small to separate at a distance, so the eye blends them into flat tints and lighter or darker shades.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Redraw this image as a 1960s pop art comic print: large visible Ben-Day dot patterns in red, yellow and cyan for shading and skin, flat primary color fills, thick black outlines, slightly off-register ink, aged newsprint paper texture. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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