An early photographic or printing process that uses color or colored materials to create images.
From Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'typos' (impression or type), similar to how 'photograph' and 'daguerreotype' combine Greek roots to describe image-making processes.
Before digital color photography, chromatypes represented early attempts to make colorful images—many of these experimental techniques are now lost, making surviving examples museum treasures that show how creative photographers were in finding color without modern film.
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