Black-and-white
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of gray.
This article is about the term as used in media and computing. For other uses, see Black and white (disambiguation).Contemporary use[edit]
Since the late 1960s, few mainstream films have been shot in black-and-white. The reasons are frequently commercial, as it is difficult to sell a film for television broadcasting if the film is not in color. 1961 was the last year in which the majority of Hollywood films were released in black and white.[1]
Computing[edit]
In computing terminology, black-and-white is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white ones; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of gray, is referred to in this context as grayscale.[2]