SVG Tip: Create a Bold Vector Halftone Graphic in Under 2-Minutes

View online   Bank Notes, Beer Labels & Bold Designs This is the guy from Nickleback. No, it's actually Albrecht Dürer – maybe the most famous woodcut artist ever. 500 years ago he was scaring the willies out of church people with stark, terrifying visions of demons, angels, and eternally damned souls.  As woodcut printing techniques can't 'mix up' the mid-tones between ink-black and paper-white – as a painter might –  Albrecht used a beautifully fine line-hatching technique to create the gray tones he needed.  We still see this cross-hatching technique in common use today – in everything from beer labels to tattoos. It's a crisp, strong look.  Our web graphics can benefit from it too. Sometimes we may want to limit our color palette, yet still have the design flexibility to render multiple tones. Today, we're going to look at a tool that can generate a vector 'halftone' from a photo in minutes – and you get it delivered as a web-ready SVG. 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