Black
About
Black is a color with the following specificities:
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- ie does not come from the visible light spectrum
- ie shows the absence of light reflection
- the darkest color (with a value of 0 on the lightness scale)
- coupled with this emotions: elegance, power, control, sophistication, depression
- is not on color wheel (or at the center for a Wheel)
- Black objects does not return any visible wavelengths of light.
- Black on a display (television, computer screens is created generally by turning off the pixel.
The complementary color of black is white.