What goes with Black?
Black is a muted, dark neutral from Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations, the 1933 reference Awtfit uses to score every outfit it builds. Wada recorded 23 palettes containing Black. Those are the combinations below, and they are the ones Awtfit scores your wardrobe against.
How to wear it
As a rule, Black goes with cream, bone and warm white, which is the pairing that stops dark neutrals reading as heavy. Because it is muted, it behaves like a neutral, so build freely on top of it.
- The safe version: Black plus one partner from its palette, plus a neutral in the largest area.
- The lightness check: keep a clear step in brightness between it and whatever sits next to it, or the outfit goes flat however correct the hues are.
- If you own one piece in it: treat that piece as the point of the outfit and build quietly around it.
The exact palettes for Black
23 exact palettes for Black
The colours Wada paired with Black are built into the Lab, where they are applied to the clothes you actually own. Pick the palette and Awtfit assembles the outfit from your wardrobe, then shows it on you.
See them in AwtfitAwtfit measures the real colour of every garment you photograph, matches it to the nearest of these 157, and scores your outfits on the palettes they share. That is the part you cannot do from a chart: it works on your own wardrobe. See how the stylist works, or browse all 157 colours.