The black dots on a windscreen are called 'frits ... Usually the frit band starts as a solid line before morphing into lots of individual small dots nearer the edge. The frit band has multiple ...

Envision a black line slapped onto your windshield. Not exactly a thing of beauty, right? Thankfully, those black dots are not sprinkled on haphazardly. They follow a design called a halftone pattern.