black pigment
Ink's coloring agent
Black pigment is any substance used to produce black color in paints, inks, dyes, or other coloring applications.
Carbon black, made from soot or charcoal, is the most common.
Ivory black was historically made from charred bones.
In biology, melanin is the black pigment in skin, hair, and eyes.
- melaninNatural coloring compound
- carbonSixth element, atomic symbol C
- inkWriting fluid
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- charcoalBurned wood residue
ebony · tattoo · mascara · kohl · oxide · squid · sepia · darkness · pitch dark · shade · tint · lampblack · coal · graphite · ochre · burnt umber · umber · stain
- pigmentationmelanin, eumelanin, melanocytes, skin color, skin tone
- Bogolanfinicotton cloth, geometric patterns, protective symbols, fertility symbols, Mali
- cave artcave painting, cave paintings, Lascaux, Altamira, hand stencils
color/lightness
black pigmenttitanium dioxide
White inorganic pigment compound
white paint · chalk · white lead · ivory · pearl white
black, pigment, blacks, blacked, blacking, blacken, blackens, blackened, blackening