dark tone
Brooding color shade
A dark tone is a mood or atmosphere that's somber, serious, or ominous.
Stories, films, or music with a dark tone deal with heavy subjects—death, despair, moral ambiguity—or create an unsettling feeling: The movie's dark tone surprised audiences expecting a comedy.
In visual arts, dark tones refer to shades closer to black than white.
- somberGravely serious in mood
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- shadowyObscured by darkness
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
ominous · moody · bleak · pitch black · sinister · murky · low lighting · grave · foreboding · film noir · noir · twilight · haunting · muted · dramatic · heavy · menacing · eerie
- timbretimbre, quality, resonance, overtones, harmonics
- vocal expressionvibrato, inflection, pitch range, vocal range, dynamics
- screentoneshalftone, dot pattern, hatching, stippling, speed lines