| Black | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Common connotations | |
| Darkness, evil, luxury, mourning | |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #000000 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 0%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (0, 0, 0°) |
| Source | X11/By definition |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Shades of black, or off-black colors, are colors that differ only slightly from pure black. These colors have a low lightness. From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Colors often considered "shades of black" include onyx, black olive, charcoal, and jet.
These colors may be considered for part of a neutral color scheme, usually in interior design as a part of a background for brighter colors. Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity.[1]
In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. It decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a "shade of black" is always a pure black itself and a "tint of black" would be a neutral gray. In practice, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation).
- ^ Pile, John F. Interior Design Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:2007 Prentice-Hall p. 316