I just found an old blog-entry of mine from 2013…
The words “No-Tan” come from the traditional japanese art and mean the general, and most often the tone-value structure of a picture.
“No” has the meaning of dark, saturated ink ( traditional japanese painting is mostly done in black-white ), while “Tan” has the meaning of more diluted, and brighter ink.
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