Tutorial How To Make Simple Halftone in Adobe Illustrator

Halftone is how continuous tone becomes printable dots. In Illustrator, Color Halftone and a live pattern turn a gradient or photo into a dot screen where size carries tone — small dots for highlights, larger ones for shadows.

Why vector halftone

Keeping the dots as vectors means the screen can be scaled, recoloured, and separated without re-rasterising. That matters when the same art runs at business-card size and at poster size.