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Blending Yoruba, Catholic and mystical traditions, their photos feature jet-black subjects that blend into inky backgrounds, their eyes piercing the darkness as they stare at the viewer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

“We didn’t see it at the time, but item by inky item we were turning him into a New York icon,” wrote former Page Six reporter and editor Susan Mulcahy in a 2016 Politico piece.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The vision turns spookier: “Her inky eyes bulged. Mā opened her mouth wide, as if to say something, and dirt spilled out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

He found Penny on the forecastle, where he had so often found Ser Jorah, standing by the rail beside the cog’s hideous half-rotted figurehead and gazing out across the inky sea.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Dark to begin with, the 1966 musical grew still inkier with Sam Mendes’ mid-1990s revival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2018

Here and there an inkier blackness moving showed a unit that had begun to find itself again.

From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens

THE GRAND-DUKE   And the inkier the blackness     All the clearer do we see   To select the whitest pigeon   In the dove-cote, and the bluest     Blue jay on the shuddering tree!

From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand

And as the road once again shaped for another crater-like ravine, plunged in inkier darkness and shrouded in solemn stillness, thoughts surged rapidly through one's mind.

From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Thomas H. Reid

They swept the heavens over and back, steadied awhile pointing inland, and went out again, leaving an even inkier blackness than before, and setting the watchers blinking and rubbing their dazzled eyes.

From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower

Give that information a moment to sink in, to really scrabble its way inside the inkiest crannies of your gray matter.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018

Shooting in 35-millimeter black-and-white film, Mr. Garrel fills the wide screen with a ravishment of tones, from inkiest black to crystalline white and every imaginable gray in between.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018

His figures — rendered in the inkiest shades of black — command notice and authority.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

From the palest blush of pink to the inkiest blue, stone fruit come in a vast array of colors, enriching the beauty – and nutrition – of your dining palette.

From US News ● Jul. 14, 2015

Darkness, the blackest, inkiest darkness, rolled over me in waves and hid me so well no Jack Johnson or Big Bertha could ever find me.

From Three Times and Out by Nellie L. McClung