coloroto

English

Noun

coloroto (plural colorotos)

1. (historical) A rotogravure produced in color.
   • 1923, Editor & Publisher, volume 56, numbers 2-28, page 8:

     […] the trouble in manipulating the colorotos and rotogravures.

   • 1927, The Iowa Journalist, volumes 3-4, page 3:

     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.

   • 1976, Tom Burke, Burke's Steerage, page 29:

     The 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.