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Originally Posted by nathanbs
I honestly thought you were being sarcastic. Black is definitely not just black. Almost every black used on a production vehicle has yellow, red, blue, white, etc toners in them. You can put a very small amount of pearl and have a color that completely appears black but on close inspection you can see the pearl flakes. OP what do you want? Original? Custom? Lexus black which is almost only one toner that’s essentially the darkest, richest, black toner will be your purest black based off of an oem color
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No, I wasn't being sarcastic. But you kinda made my point in your sentence I bolded above. Using only one toner or base colour of black would be pure black. Any other additional tinters would make it less pure, which by definition would not be black but a very dark, black-like shade of grey.
If you want to get all sciency and technical (oops, sorry, my INTP is showing...), black is the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. So with that description, the blackest black automotive paint which has no added colour tints, is still not really black. To get close to that, one would have to use a carbon nano-tube coating like Vantablack which absorbs something like 99.95% of all visible light. It turns anything covered with it into a visual black hole. Hmmm... I wonder how well it would work against police speed radar, which isn't in the visual spectrum, but still, now I'm curious...
But in the spirit of providing some actual useful information to the OP, I think the non-metallic black code is L700 as was indicated by a couple others. And in my opinion the solid non-metallic looks better than a metallic, regardless of the "shade" of black one chooses. Just gotta keep it clean.
