<span class="mw-page-title-main">Black and white</span>

Black and white

<p><b>Black-and-white</b> (<b>B&amp;W</b> or <b>B/W</b>) images combine <a href="/en/Black" title="Black" class="wl">black</a> and <a href="/en/White" title="White" class="wl">white</a> in a <a href="/en/Continuous_spectrum" title="Continuous spectrum" class="wl">continuous spectrum</a>, producing a <a href="/en/Grayscale" title="Grayscale" class="wl">range</a> of <a href="/en/Shades_of_gray" title="Shades of gray" class="wl">shades</a> of <a href="/en/Grey" title="Grey" class="wl">grey</a>.</p>

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<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt4">Monochrome form in visual arts</div>
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<figure class="mw-default-size wiki-thumb"><a href="/en/File:Breadfruit.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Breadfruit.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Breadfruit.jpg/220px-Breadfruit.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="643" data-file-type="bitmap" height="283" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Breadfruit.jpg/330px-Breadfruit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Breadfruit.jpg/440px-Breadfruit.jpg 2x" alt="Breadfruit.jpg"></a><figcaption>A black-and-white photo of a <a href="/en/Breadfruit" title="Breadfruit" class="wl">breadfruit</a>, <abbr about="#mwt7" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;circa&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:Circa&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;1870&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span> </span>1870</span></figcaption></figure>



Black-and-white images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. 