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Halftone Tint Pack Featured in Uppercase Magazine

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The Halftone Tint Pack has a nice blurb in Uppercase Magazine, Issue 37. Uppercase publishes books and magazines for the creative and curious — publications that spark the imagination and inspire creativity.

Halftone Tint Pack featured in Uppercase Magazine

Here’s how Publisher Janine Vangool describes this issue:

“Although every issue of UPPERCASE could be described as a celebration of ink on paper, in this particular edition we’re diving into the substance of what makes a colourful publication like this one possible—that very special combination of tiny cyan, magenta, yellow and black dots that work together to create everything you see printed on this page. (Get a magnifying glass and get in real close! Enjoy that inky smell, too! The vegetable-based inks really smell great on our 100% recycled paper stock.)”

Map Halftones à la 1956

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Cameron Booth is a Graphic Designer with a particularly keen area of interest — transit maps. Recently, he set his sights on a digital recreation of one of his all time favorites — a 1956 Paris Métro Map.

On Booth’s site, he talks about why he chose our Illustrator Tint Pack to recreate the vintage 1956 halftones: “Creating good looking vector-based halftone dots in Illustrator is surprisingly difficult, with results that either look too digital and perfect, or create an unholy mess of millions of paths and anchor points. In the end, I made use of the Halftone.us Illustrator Tint Pack, a collection of lovely, organic-looking, seamless halftone pattern swatches…”

Have a look at the fruits of Booth’s labor, below.

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Paris Métro Map — the whole enchilada
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Paris Métro Map — detail view (Check out those dots!)

Read the full story about Cameron Booth’s painstaking digital recreation of this 1956 Paris Metro Map here.

Seen at: Plug Digital

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Plug Digital is one of New York’s leading suppliers of wide format graphics, window displays, offset & digital printing, specialty finishing and display services. Plug’s clientele is spread among top retailers, museums, graphic designers, event marketers, and entertainment professionals.

This is what you see when you walk into their lobby:

Halftone Illustrator Tint Pack at Plug Digital

Menagerie Co. put the Illustrator Tint Pack to good use here … Notice those black areas aren’t exactly black. That’s lusciously-irregular Tint Pack 90%. Subtle but very effective.