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Typewritten page of canary onionskin, 1912. Note the translucency in the upper right corner, where the red library stamp on the obverse is visible.
Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, lightweight, strong, often translucent paper,[1] named for its resemblance to the thin skins of onions.[2] It was usually used with carbon paper for typing duplicates in a typewriter, for permanent records where low bulk was important, or for airmail correspondence.[3] It is typically 25–39 g/m2 (9-pound basis weight in US units), and may be white or canary-colored.
In the typewriter era, onion skin often had a deeply textured cockle finish[citation needed] which allowed for easier erasure of typing mistakes, but other glazed and unglazed finishes were also available then and may be more common today.
Onionskin paper is relatively durable and lightweight due to its high content of cotton fibers. Because of these attributes and its crispness when folding, onionskin paper is one of the best papers to use for toy kites and advanced paper airplanes. Paper airplanes made from onionskin paper tend to fly very well due to their low weight and high integrity once folded.
Onionskin paper has also been regularly used in traditional cel animation. Due to its translucency, it is used as a guide in drawing the frames between key-frames. This is a process that animators refer to as "in-betweening". The process of "onionskinning" is also used in digital animation where frames are represented by digital layers in a production.
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Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, lightweight, strong, often translucent paper, named for its resemblance to the thin skins of onions. It was usually...
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her childhood. Her mother responded with recipes written in Hindi on onionskin paper in letters sent via airmail. The very first letter was dated 19...
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Legislature was not in session. The newsletter got its name from the onionskin paper on which it originally was printed. In recent years, the Yellow...
Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory. Using typewriters, carbons, and onionskin papers, the Court on average issued published opinions in over 300 cases...
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