*Hed is a journalist’s slang for “headline,” and cut refers to the 600-year-old art of the woodcut, which is an essentially subtractive printing technique akin to the etching portraiture style used on U.S. currency. It is more formally known as xylography and involves working in relief, like sculpting: material is removed from a block to create the white or negative, nonprinting part of the illustration. The printing parts are those which remain on the surface of the block. The dot-art technique used in hedcuts is called stippling, which also is known in the art world as pointillism.
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