# Phototype

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* '''Phototype''' can refer to a metal printing block, sometimes prepared using [photogravure](/source/photogravure) to reproduce a photograph in printing.  The block may be a [halftone](/source/halftone) image.
* '''Phototype''' can also refer to type set using a [phototypesetting](/source/phototypesetting) process to prepare pages for photo [lithography](/source/lithography). This process replaced [hot metal typesetting](/source/hot_metal_typesetting). It was commonly used in the late nineteenth century (for book illustration), and through the 1970s and 1980s, and was in turn rapidly rendered obsolete by modern systems which employ a [raster image processor](/source/raster_image_processor) to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image which is then photoset.
* '''Skin phototype''' depends on the amount of melanin pigment in the skin.  It is assessed on a scale from 1 to 6. See [Fitzpatrick scale](/source/Fitzpatrick_scale) for more details.

{| border="1"
| Skin Phototype 
| Typical Features 
| Tanning ability 
|-
| I 
| Pale white skin, blue/hazel eyes, blond/red hair 
| Always burns, does not tan
|-
| II 
|	Fair skin, blue eyes 
|	Burns easily, tans poorly
|-
| III 
| Darker white skin 
| Tans after initial burn
|-
| IV 
| Light brown skin 
| Burns minimally, tans easily
|-
| V
| Brown skin 
| Rarely burns, tans darkly easily
|-
| VI 
| Dark brown or black skin 
| Never burns, always tans darkly
|}

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