greyscale
A completely colorless, black-and-white image. The image is composed exclusively of shades of black, white, and grey. It is very common for comics and doujinshi to be in greyscale.
If the image is only colored in black (or a single shade of grey) and white, do not use this tag. Use monochrome instead.
Using color tags like black eyes or black hair is discouraged (see forum #138216 and forum #164207) when tagging greyscale images. Exceptions are color background tags, so tagging white background, grey background, and black background are fine.
Examples
- For completely colorless art, use greyscale (post #5785450).
- For a post having a single hue that isn't grey, use monochrome, do not greyscale (post #5101720, post #5653986)
- For a mostly greyscale post with a small amount of color as a highlight, use greyscale and spot color (post #5907966, post #6305736).
- For a post using a mix of color and greyscale, use partially colored, do not use greyscale (post #7287545, post #5782023).
- For a colorless foreground and colorful background, use greyscale with colored background, do not use greyscale nor partially colored (post #7258840, post #5782342).
- For a post that has solid black shadings, use greyscale and high contrast (post #3743593, post #7035965).
- For posts with a small variety of colors but more than two actual colors, use limited palette, do not use greyscale nor monochrome (post #6764762, post #7497928).
See also
The following tags are aliased to this tag: black_and_white and grayscale (learn more).
This tag implicates monochrome (learn more).