^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill p.Interior Design Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:2007 Prentice-Hall p. Unlike these, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation).Ĭolors often considered "shades of black" include onyx, black olive, charcoal, and jet these colors and other variations of black are shown below. Strictly speaking, a "shade of black" is always a pure black itself and a "tint of black" would be a neutral gray. It decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity. Variations of black include what are commonly termed off-black colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme, usually in interior design as a part of a background for brighter colors.
From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Shades of black are colors that differ only slightly from pure black.
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