Black is black?

[Gianni Becattini]

In the palette small window, there are four small squares: nothing, grey, black and white.

There is a reason why the black is not exactly black?

Thanks

[GarryP]

Which “palette small window”? Can you give us a screenshot?

What do you mean by “not exactly black” and how did you deduce that it was not black?

Are you editing a CMYK document, and/or do you have the “Colour Type” set to CMYK in the Colour Panel?

[Pšenda]

7 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Which “palette small window”?

 

17 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

There is a reason why the black is not exactly black?

https://www.google.com/search?q=black+is+not+black+site:https://forum.affinity.serif.com

Edited November 2, 2023 by Pšenda

[Gianni Becattini]

The second little square out of the four on the right, produces 231F20 not black.

Thanks for the link, but the problem is not in printing text.

[Pšenda]

30 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

The second little square out of the four on the right, produces 231F20 not black.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Gianni Becattini said:

The second little square out of the four on the right, produces 231F20 not black.

It should give you a CMYK true black (0/0/0/100).

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

 

[Gianni Becattini]

Thank you, I understand mainly that there are many things that I cannot understand.

For what I know, I never changed Color format.

I will be very grateful if you can give me an answer on these point:

• my document is going to be printed, so the CMYK sounds good to my untrained ears;
• when I want the most possible black printed, have I to select 0,0,0 (so the black from Apple palette) or what I get with the second little square (231F20)?

Forgive my ignorance

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:

• my document is going to be printed, so the CMYK sounds good to my untrained ears;

Printed by you on a home printer? Then you may be best served by working in RGB. Most home / office printers have fairly sophisticated built-in RGB to CMYK conversion routines.

Printed on a four colour sheet or web press? Then use CMYK for sure.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Gianni Becattini]

Thanks, very useful, and thanks for the suggestions. I never could have got there by myself...