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This tag describes images and animations that primarily, or only consist of the tones Black and White.

A black and white image will often feature a blank white background with black lines, although this is sometimes reversed, with white lines or shapes on a black background. Black and White images sometimes feature halftone or hatching to create areas of tonal value between black and white, alternatively, or additionally, the image may feature large solid areas of white or black to define the figure, or to convey highlights and shadows on the subject or background of the image.

Line art is often black and white.

Not to be confused with greyscale

If an image has varying tones of grey shading, it is not a black and white image; if the image features solid black lines and flat grey shading, use line art and greyscale instead of black_and_white.

In rare cases, an image can still fall under this tag while featuring some sparse grey shading (such as blush or very minor soft shading on a figure).

Related Tags:

• sketch
• line art
• high contrast

Other Two Tone Tags:

• blue_and_white
• brown_and_white
• green_and_white
• orange_and_white
• pink_and_white
• purple_and_white
• red_and_white
• yellow_and_white

See Also:

• color contrast
• greyscale
• monochrome
• tag group:colors