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Chromatype vs Chromotype - What's the difference?

chromatype | chromotype |

As nouns the difference between chromatype and chromotype

is that chromatype is a colour photograph taken on paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium while chromotype is a sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph.

chromatype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A colour photograph taken on paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
  • The process by which such a picture is made.
    • (Webster 1913)

    chromotype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph.
  • (dated) A photographic picture in the natural colours.
    • (Webster 1913)