Wiktionary
soft matte
a. (context cinematography English) That the full frame is filled, and the projectionist is relied upon to matte out the top and bottom of the frame in the theatrical projector.
Usage examples of "soft matte".
At once more massive and sleeker than the Central Worlds naval equivalent, the suits were a soft matte black, and moved with the jerky quickness of servo-powered systems.
The color was a soft matte black, the material a complex ceramic assembled atom by atom.
The metal was covered in a soft matte-black finish, only the honed edge reflecting mirror bright.
It was lined with gleaming marble columns, the walls painted a soft matte shade of a fashionable color called “.