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the absence of light dressed up as the presence of cool.
means The darkest color, the one you get when no light is reflected back to your eye — or, by extension, anything dark, somber, or grim.
from From Old English 'blæc,' meaning dark or ink-black. Here's the twist: it sits suspiciously close to Old English 'blāc,' meaning pale or shining — and both may trace back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to burning, the kind of root that gave us 'bleach' too. The likely thread is fire: what burns turns black with soot, yet flame itself is bright. So 'black' and its near-opposite may be cousins, separated by whether you're looking at the ash or the blaze.
- true black
- Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of visible light
- not a color
- physicists call it the lack of one
- slimming myth
- actually makes you look slightly smaller, optically
- hottest hue
- black surfaces absorb the most solar heat
- ink origins
- early black ink came from burnt animal bones
black 47 — irish-american rock band from new york formed in 1989, named after the irish famine year
black sabbath — heavy metal band from birmingham, england, formed in 1968
black panther party — african-american political organization founded in oakland, california in 1966