An early color photographic print made using a process that creates colors through pigments or dyes, or a classification based on color characteristics.
From Greek 'chroma' (color) and 'typos' (type or impression). The term describes early photographic and printing processes that could reproduce colors.
Chromotypes were among the earliest color photography methods in the 1800s—artists and photographers experimented with hand-coloring, pigment-based processes, and dye methods to capture color before modern color film was invented!
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