Black (#000000) is a very dark neutral shade that appears across 12 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Owen Jones, John Simpson, and Luca Giordano and the Art Nouveau tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Coffee (#6F4E37), Raisin black (#242124), and Almond (#EED9C4). The combination forms a sombre, weighty chord, pulls a neutral anchor into a warm composition, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the lighter companions read as highlights.
