Black showing as dark gray in black/gray/white mini swatch

[0125]

Hi,

maybe this is standard behavior or a bug or I messed up the swatch recently and unknowingly. 

When I have CMYK/8 color format selected under document setup, black does not appear as black but as dark gray (roughly 80% black) in the none/black/gray/white mini swatch. 

It is the same for all three Affinity products. I just noted it in Publisher because CMYK/8 is set as default for new files.

Is there a way to set it back to 100% or is it supposed to work that way and I just never noticed?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

That should be a pure Black that is 100K, with 0 for C/Y/M.

A pure Black in CMYK generally will not be as black as a Rich Black that uses a mixture of K, C, Y, and M. You need to pick the Black you (and your printers) actually want for your project. Beyond that, though, I'll defer to someone else for more details.

[0125]

Hello Walt. Indeed, it shows CMYK = (0/0/0/100). While what seems to be true black on screen is composed as CMYK = (72/68/67/88).

So, I guess it's expected behavior, which I simply didn't pay attention to before. Strange, anyhow.

I can live with it and will leave it with this. Thanks for your input Walt!