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Originally Posted by Canada Kev

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.

That would be interesting but not likely very elegant lol. Sort of a black blob. To add to what I was saying previously and to address some of what you said, most paint manufacturers have 2-3 different black toners usually only 1 being super clean. L700 is super dirty FYI, has white, red and one of the less clean black toners