Shades of black

Black is classic, serious and expensive-looking. Luxury and fashion brands love it because it lets the shape of a logo do all the work. Here are 149 named black colours, from lightest to darkest.

Popular black colours

Onyx#353935 Jet black#343434 Black#000000

All black colours

Tuxedo#3F3C43 Royal Decree#403547 In the Dark#3B3C41 Tamahagane#3B3F40 Cowboy#443736 Do Not Disturb#363B43 Coal Hard Truth#3B3B3D Eclipse#3F3939 Void Wellness Coach#41373A After Midnight#38393F Shuriken#333344 Moonless Night#3C393D Artist’s Charcoal#37393E Dead Pixel#3B3A3A Professor Plum#393540 Witches Cauldron#35343F Black Olive#3B3C36 Vulcan#36383C After Dark#3C3535 Lacquered Liquorice#383838 Tempest in a Teapot#303A40 Onyx#353935 Wet Concrete#353838 Kilimanjaro#3A3532 Six Feet Under#3D322E Smoked Black Coffee#3B2F2F Jet black#343434 Ebony#313337 Carbon#333333 Dark Charcoal#333232 Mole#392D2B Oil#313330 Phantom Ship#2F3434 Night Rider#332E2E Mystical Shadow#352B30 Haiti#2C2A35 Holy Crow#332F2C Nightmare Fuel#293135 Aztec#293432 Diesel#322C2B Melanzane#342931 Terminal Black#2B322D Carbon Fibre#2E2E2E Smoky Charcoal#34282C Caviar#2B2C30 Night Sky#292B31 Jaguar#29292F Noir#312B27 Anthracite#28282D Marshland#2B2E26 The End#2A2A2A Cinder#242A2E Graphite Black#262A2B Dire Wolf#282828 Bitter Liquorice#262926 Darth Vader#27252A Nero#252525 Young Night#232323 Ink Black#252024 Noble Black#202124 Velvet Black#241F20 Lead#212121 Inkwell Inception#1E1E21 Umbra#211E1F Underworld#1E231C Satin Deep Black#1C1E21 Dark Prom Queen#2B0F2E Secret Passage#372A05 Night Demons#201B20 Naval Night#011C39 Sunken Ship#10252A Quiet Abyss#160435 3AM Breakup#330404 Burnt Coffee#271B10 Coco’s Black#1C1C1A Oblivion#000435 Bats Cloak#1F1518 Squid’s Ink#041330 Coal Mine#220033 Corbeau#111122 Eigengrau#16161D Haunted Hills#003311 Italian Roast#221111 Midnight Dreams#002233 Nightmare#112211 Pitch-Black Forests#003322 Vienna Roast#330022 Violet Void#1A161D Wasabi Nori#333300 Haunted Forest#032E0E Nether#2E0303 Piano Black#17171A Back in Black#16141C Lindworm Green#172808 Shadow Play#2D1403 Midnight Pines#17240B Mysterious Depths#060929 Twilight Zone#191916 Midnight#03012D Dark Moon#161718 Illicit Darkness#00022E Oxford by Night#001B2E PCB Green#002D04 Dark Void#151517 Void#050D25 Black Stallion#0E191C Matt Black#151515 Scandinavian Liquorice#1A1110 Shot in the Dark#1D0D1D Noir Mystique#1F180A Sooty#141414 Soulless#1B150D Midnight Edition#0C121B Cursed Black#131313 King Kong#161410 Dark Veil#141311 Belladonna#220011 Black Sabbath#220022 Dreamless Sleep#111111 Glimpse Into Space#121210 Ruined Smores#0F1012 Sinister#12110E Midnight Oil#0B0C14 Crow#180614 Dwarf Fortress#1D0200 Noir Fiction#150811 Black Sheep#0F0D0D Narwhal Grey#080813 Balsamico#130D07 Dark Rift#060B14 Asphalt#130A06 Black Wash#0C0C0C Knight Rider#0F0707 Obsidian Shard#060313 Raven#0B0B0B Jedi Night#041108 Black Knight#010B13 Dark Matter#110101 Memorial Black#091101 Blackn’t#020F03 Glossy Black#110011 Blackout#0E0702 Cosmic Bit Flip#001000 Eight Ball#03050A Black Metal#060606 Liquorice#0A0502 Raven’s Coat#030205 Black Hole#010203 Black#000000

Colours without a page of their own open in the colour wheel, which shows the colours that go with them.

Colour names from color-name-list by David Aerne and contributors (MIT licence). Colour families follow our Brand Colour Index, except that light reds count as pink and dull dark oranges as brown.