Is black a color?

Answer 1

No, black is the absence of color

Answer 2

Whew, such confusion! Black paint, white paint, black rooms, lighted rooms.... Subtractive and additive colors..ugh. It might be best to only thing of color as light...or as fractions of light. (Skip the paint for now). Add RBG (red, blue, green) lights and you get white light. (Aren't those little dots on your TV screen neat to look at with a magnifying lens?) Look at color as little photonies that hit your retina and excite your little retinal cells. White (light) is the presence of all colors...the emission of a wide bandwidth of visible light that hits your eye/retina. Black (light..ha ha) is when you're in a dark room and you can't see a thing...no light..no photons around. - - - Oh, the paint? You don't 'see' the paint. You don't 'see' the paint color...not really. You see the color that is being reflected from the paint. Example: Red Paint. White light applied to the Red Paint. Some of the light bounces off the "Red" paint. The "Red" is what is reflected into your eye onto your retina. The other portion of the white light was absorbed by the so-called "Red" paint. Care to guess what colors the Red Paint absorbed? "Color" in that sense...occurs when your eye is only receiving a 'fractional' part of portion of a full white light emission. Or the light source is only generating a partial or selected section of the visible light spectrum

Answer 3

We see colors from objects when those objects cannot absorb that particular color from the specturm. Consider white. If you see a white object - it only means that none of the colors of the spectrum are absorbed by that object. The object reflects all those colors and all colors of the spectrum combined gives u white. Where as for black its just the opposite. Hope you understand what colors are.. now? Cheers!

By the way "Matttlocke" the concept is just the opposite what u said...think about it.. dude...

Answer 4

No black is not a color. It is the absence of color.
Remember White is all the visible color at one time.

Answer 5

Black is the darkest color: a color value that has no hue as a result of the absorption of nearly all light from all visible wavelengths. It is the absence of all color, but is not transluscent. If you think about going to a paint store to buy black paint, they wouldn't sell you an empty bucket.

Answer 6

In solid substances, black is the combination of all colors, when you shine white light on a black object it appears black because it absorbs all different colors of light, in light there are seven different colors, each one based on the wavelengths of the light. The shorter wavelengths, it goes towards violet side of the color scale, the longer they get they go towards the red side, this is where we get ultraviolet and infrared waves. When a solid substance absorbs all but one color from light, the reflected light appears as that color not absorbed. Black is a color because in the substance it contains all colors but as you see it, it appears as an absence of color.

Answer 7

No, black is not a color according to physics. An object appears black because it absorbs all the colors of the white light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) and reflects none. A surface not reflecting any color is referred as black.

Answer 8

Black is a color. Even if it is not in the rainbow. Some people think it is not, just as they think white is not, but I think that both colors are well.. colors.

Answer 9

Yes. Black is a color. If you don't believe me, do this,

1-look up the definition of what color is
2-open a crayon box and find the color black.

It doesnt matter what black does, if it absobs, penetrates, seems like a shade etc, its a color.

And lastly, a color is a color is a color is a color.

Answer 10

Uh, yeah...black is a color, just like all the colors in the color spectrum, like white, yellow, red, or blue. And "colored" people is an archaic term, by the way.