24 Is Black A Color. Black is not a color, white is a color. Black is also not a shade because a shade is a color in which you add black to in order to change its intensity therefor darkening or muting it, whereas a tint is when you mix white to ther many different ways of representing colour, and what black is (and white) depends on which system you are using.
Consider chromatic black if you want a black with some life to it that's also more subtle in mixtures. Phthalo emerald, a warm green, and quinacridone red which is a cool red. Black is the absence of color, and white is the presence of all color.
It is the opposite of white.
24 Is Black A Color. Both of them exist because black has been introduced with the color class, then they realized that it wasn't following naming convention so they added the capitalized version (you can see since 1.4 written). So artists must use their darkest color of paint to. In heraldry, black is called sable. Idc how technical you try to be about it.