light-toned
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Made of solid and veneered ash with no screws or nails, it comes in a light-toned natural finish and the black-stained version pictured here.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2019
“The Lovers” is a romantic comedy of the sort that they used to make, a light-toned but earnest love story with a solidly built framework to govern the action with a nearly architectural precision.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017
Huge patches of light and dark coloration mottle Pluto's surface; most prominent among them is a giant light-toned region that resembles a heart.
From Nature • Jul. 14, 2015
X-rays are slightly impeded by soft tissues, which show up as gray on the X-ray plate, whereas hard tissues, such as bone, largely block the rays, producing a light-toned “shadow.”
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It was undeniable; those light-toned paintings over which people had laughed so much at the Salon of the Rejected were secretly influencing many painters, and gradually brightening every palette.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
