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Black Minecraft blocks

36 of the blocks in Java Edition 26.2 come out black, lightest first. The hex under each one is the dominant colour of the textures that block is drawn with, measured from the files themselves.

Every black block 36

The hex values

The whole family as text, lightest first, ready to paste into a palette, a map-art planner or a shader.

36 black hex values
#38363a  Mud
#333333  Bedrock
#312c36  Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks
#282828  Cracked Deepslate Bricks
#292929  Cracked Deepslate Tiles
#292929  Deepslate Tile Slab
#292929  Deepslate Tile Stairs
#292929  Deepslate Tile Wall
#292929  Deepslate Tiles
#272727  Chiseled Deepslate
#24242a  Black Bed
#272528  Tinted Glass
#27221c  Blackstone
#27221c  Blackstone Slab
#27221c  Blackstone Stairs
#27221c  Blackstone Wall
#27221c  Gilded Blackstone
#1a1827  Black Candle
#251711  Black Terracotta
#191919  Black Stained Glass
#191919  Black Stained Glass Pane
#14161c  Black Concrete Powder
#16161a  Black Carpet
#16161a  Black Wool
#0d1217  Sculk
#0d1217  Sculk Catalyst
#0d1217  Sculk Shrieker
#101010  Structure Block
#080a0f  Black Concrete
#090909  Block of Coal
#08080c  Dragon Egg
#030207  Enchanting Table
#030206  Beacon
#030206  Crying Obsidian
#030206  Obsidian
#050209  Respawn Anchor

Where the colour comes from

Each colour is measured, not chosen: the block's textures are read out of the client jar, transparent pixels are dropped, the rest are quantised to four bits per channel and the largest group is the dominant colour. It is converted to HSL to pick the family — hue first, with saturation and lightness deciding white, grey, black and brown, since brown is a dark or muted red, orange or yellow rather than a hue of its own.

No block in this family is tinted at render time, so every colour here is the texture file exactly as it ships. The blocks the game does tint end up in red and green.

One state per block, the resting one the inventory shows, and one render each at fit=block so a torch and a full cube are drawn at the same scale. Every block here links to its own page, where the same colour is listed next to the textures it came from.