Displaying Black on a Black Background

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Im working on a fashion lookbook for print and I’m displaying product colours on a black background, but what can I do for when I need to display black on black? Example:

Example

As you can see there are 3 colours but the black is not legible on black, what do you reckon I could do to improve visibility without compromising design too much? I cant change the black background FYI. The black dot in the picture isn’t quite Black (#000000) its actually #20201f which I thought would help but when we did a test print it was basically invisible.

Answer

Here are a couple of things you could do…

Stroke the black:

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Use an outer Glow, this may not work depending on the rest of the design:

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Stroke all of them, this is what I think I would do:

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