Meanings
plural colorotos
- historicalA rotogravure produced in color.
[…] the trouble in manipulating the colorotos and rotogravures.
1923, Editor & Publisher, volume 56, numbers 2-28, page 82 more examples
The progress of newspaper illustration can be traced in a few decades from the woodcut through line engraving, the half-tone, the mezzotint process, to rotogravure and coloroto.
1927, The Iowa Journalist, volumes 3-4, page 3The production's colors, though, are very monochromatic—muted, lots of browns, creams, beiges, dark blues, bottle greens, like a coloroto section of an old newspaper.
1976, Tom Burke, Burke's Steerage, page 29
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