What is the connotation of the color black?

Answer 1

Connotations of the colour black are mostly negative and associated with a dark skin color of people in america.

"Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, 'black death'). Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color (black tie, black Mercedes). In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief."

Answer 2

Some may think it symbolizes darkness, loneliness or sadness. However black is known as a sophisticated and cosmopolitan color in the fashion world.

It symbolizes power and authority.

Magically speaking, Black is the absence of colour.

It is used to: absorb and banish negativity, return energy to its sender, combat hyperactivity and destroy bad habits.

It represents: the Dark Goddess, the Crone, time, grounding, chaos, winter, rebirth, wisdom, rest, infinity, investigation, divination, protection, the first stage of a working, or the beginning of creation.

It symbolises: outer space, the universe, the number eight, and the day Saturday.

In some cultures black represents fertility, as in quite fruitful black earth; all potential; the root force of all things; knowledge of hidden things and the container of light.

In western culture it is the colour of death and mourning. It is also in western culture where it has been linked with evil due to religious bias. Although black is a very powerful colour it is not evil.

Feng Shui: Black is the colour of the element Water, the North - the Black Tortoise, and it is considered a lucky colour.

Mayans and Zuni used black to represent the direction - West, the Aztecs use it for - North,

Answer 3

Emotions associated with the colour black are:

Dispair
Hopelessness
Sadness