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A soft black
This soft black is one of the original Farrow & Ball colours - an uncomplicated name for a well loved classic. Off-Black is much more flattering to adjacent colours than stronger blacks because it feels so much milder in tone and has less of the underlying cool blue of Railings or Black Blue.
We’re dedicated to perfecting the art of paint. At our home in Dorset, we combine the finest ingredients, 75 years of experience and technical precision to help you create beautiful spaces that stay beautiful. Even in our colour rich paints, less than 8% of the tin is the colour. The other 92% is what creates the quality, depth and extraordinary response to light that transforms your home.
Paint is like coffee. The colour is the froth on the top, but it’s the quality of the rest of the cup that makes it taste good. – Richard Ball, Farrow & Ball Co-founder
We use twelve exclusive pigments, all specifically selected for their colour intensity. We take colour seriously, so naturally, we only accept the very best. By using these same pigments to make every colour in our palette, all our shades combine effortlessly, making it easy for you to put together a cohesive colour scheme.
Deeper, richer colours
Deeper, richer colours
Packed with pigment for an extraordinary response to every kind of light.
We add generous helpings of rich pigment to create our signature look – deep colours with complex undertones. The same space that feels bright and airy in morning sun, can feel cosy and intimate by evening. Our teams design each shade under every kind of light, so it will be perfectly balanced in every setting.
Extraordinary response to light
Extraordinary response to light
We spend months carefully crafting and testing each of our paint colours to make sure they share our signature extraordinary response to light. This beautiful reaction to changing light, like bringing out different undertones or shifting intensity, is what makes our paint so special.
Interior and exterior finishes
Interior and exterior finishes
From walls, floors and furniture to radiators, skirtings and sheds, our range of paint finishes can help you transform almost any surface in your home (and outside it, too).
We even have multi-surface finishes like Dead Flat® and Full Gloss, so you can tackle walls, woodwork and metal at the same time.
Our comprehensive range is comprised of paint finishes that not only look beautiful, but offer different practical benefits. Designed for a variety of different surfaces, each finish is compatible with our high-performance Primers & Undercoats to ensure exceptional coverage, adhesion and depth of colour.
Colour Story
Complementary White
Blackened
Our coolest white, with the slightest hint of grey, Blackened sits perfectly with each of our Architectural Neutrals for a minimal look or stronger industrial feel. Find out more about Blackened No.2011
Every colour in the Farrow & Ball palette is paired with a specific shade of white, these are selected to celebrate a shared undertone and create harmonious spaces alongside your chosen colour.
When it comes to using dark colours, the deeper the better. So, for an irresistibly inviting finished look, pair darker shades with our Dark Tones Primer & Undercoat. Based on the colour of Down Pipe, combining this primer with your topcoat creates an unrivalled richness and makes quite the statement.
Made with the same natural ingredients and pigments as our topcoats, our Primer & Undercoat is the crucial foundation for creating a rich, even and longer lasting finish.
The best way to experience our colours before taking the plunge is with a true-to-colour paint sample. To help you narrow down your shortlist of shades, we've curated three of our most popular shades to help you find your perfect match.
Sample selection contains 3 x 100ml Sample Pots of our beautiful Hopper Head, Off-Black and Pitch Black.
Our expert Colour Consultants are ready and waiting to help bring your style to life. If you’d like personalised advice on how to use our paint and papers in your home, book an in-home or virtual appointment today.
Far from dark and dreary, black paint creates intimate, inviting and thoroughly sophisticated spaces to escape to at the end of a long day. Go bold and take it all over or simply add a touch to your trim.
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Anonymous from
Dead FlatBeautiful finish, easy to work with. Used on walls and used with spray gun for kitchen cabinets.
Date published: 2024-04-03
Rated 5 out of
5 by
S______ from
ChicVery chic. We used on kitchen units, and it creates a beautiful silhouette.
Date published: 2024-03-26
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Neen from
Dead Flat colour drench, incredible finish.Some friends and family were sceptical about my plan to paint walls, ceiling and woodwork of our living room in Off Black but they've since been converted to The Dark Side. We chose to use Dead Flat on all surfaces and it really couldn't have been easier to use and beginning with the Dark Tones Primer really helped in the application and the finish. We love it 🖤
Date published: 2024-03-09
Rated 5 out of
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Rafa from
An elegant, cool blackThis is one of my very favourite colours from F&B, as it goes extremely well with other neutral and cool colours, like All White. We loved it so much on our wood railings using Estate Eggshell, that we decided to create a feature wall in our office using Dead Flat. It turned out amazing, the very slight cool blue/gray of Off Black worked perfectly on both the wall and wooden panels, elevating the room to an elegant end. As always, F&B never fails to amaze!
Date published: 2024-02-18
Rated 5 out of
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Missbish from
AmazingThe paint is the best you can buy , my wooden wardrobe doors look amazing
Date published: 2023-11-22
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Stephanorie1 from
Off black - the perfect dramatic finish for stairsI recently chose a new stair runner to replace the previous one which had been damaged. I wanted to paint the stairs to a colour that would complement the stair runner and a friend suggested Off-black. I am delighted with the finished look. It’s the perfect dramatic colour but still has a soft and not too harsh feel to it. Just love it - so much so we decided to paint a piece of furniture in the hallway to match.
Date published: 2023-10-17
Rated 5 out of
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Percy P from
Oval Room Blue Dead FlatGreat finish, went on beautifully with a small roller, completely transformed my old wardrobes.
Date published: 2023-10-04
Rated 5 out of
5 by
D Bowtell from
Used to paint cupboardsUsed this on some built-in cupboards. Beautiful colour and had a good level of sheen. One coat of primer and two of the modern egg-shell and the cupboards look like they were professionally wrapped.
Date published: 2023-09-24
Rated 5 out of
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Asgaard from
Beautiful paint, lovely when applied. Very vibrantLovely all around, application was Beautiful.. Spot on
Date published: 2023-08-28
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Jonny2ca from
Super rich and sophisticated!My all time fav color. If black were a jewel tone it would be farrow and balls off- black
Date published: 2023-05-15
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Joppers from
Kitchen makeoverLove this colour, makes my kitchen look fantastic!
Date published: 2023-05-13
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Debofah from
Better BlackGreat off- black, not harsh like straight black, would recommend.
Date published: 2023-04-12
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Shea28 from
To my surpriseI purchased a sample of this Off Black, never look at a color with a little swatch, I had decided not to use this color. When my husband painted the feature wall in our dining living space he picked up this color. It was finished when I returned home. The outcome is Gorgeous!
Date published: 2023-02-16
Rated 5 out of
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HJ2503 from
The perfect dark - not too harshDark with warmth. After a colour consultancy with Ross in Edinburgh, we’ve used off-black modern eggshell with school house white, mouses back and shaded white for our accents without the hallway/open plan kitchen living areas and really pleased with the colour and depth it provides without being overpowering
Date published: 2023-01-03
Rated 5 out of
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Eyal from
The bestI bought this few months ago and I am so glad of the results.
I used it like accent wall and on the ceiling, the result is just incredible!
Date published: 2022-09-10
Rated 4 out of
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Anonymous from
Great colour; difficult to useFantastic colour, which is the darkest of greys/ soft black. I chose Off-Black full gloss to repaint a front door that was already a matt black, as I felt that black was a little harsh. In the tin the colour looked a few shades lighter - a mid grey - but it dried to the exact almost black I was hoping for. I found the gloss a little tricky to paint with as it was surprisingly both sticky and drippy, and it was only possible to go over it with the paintbrush/roller for the first 30 seconds or so, after that it was already too gloopy to paint over. But once I knew that, subsequent coats were applied with more care first time. I undercoated and primed with the recommended Dark Tones primer and undercoat. The first couple of coats looked quite weird as the gloss has an unnaturally glassy finish that seems more like a varnish than a paint, and the colour and finish dried up quite patchy, but the third coat gave a more flawless finish I am pleased with. 4 stars rather than 5 because of the difficulty in painting, and because it required 3 coats over the primer and undercoat, not the recommended two.
Date published: 2024-04-06
Rated 3 out of
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ChooChoo from
Good but...I bought a sample in estate emulsion and tried it on a radiator and it turned into a dark flat grey which I loved. So I bought the correct finish for wood and iran -estate eggshell- to paint all radiators but the colour is different from the sample. It is a shiny deep black. The colour seems to change depending on the finish and surfaces so it is a risk to buy a big can if you dont try it first. Deludente as I bought 2.5 lt and paid a fortune.
Date published: 2023-11-01
Rated 2 out of
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James C from
Off black exterior paintWe used Off black for our interior woodwork which was between black and charcoal. This which we painted our outbuilding bricks with looks like anthracite - maybe slightly lighter. It’s a grey basically
Date published: 2023-10-15
Rated 2 out of
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Kittyyy from
Shiny peeks GHOSTED BY CUSTOMER SERVICE!!Colour is nice so I painted my whole bathroom this colour. After about 2 week the peeks of the wall started going shiny. When I reached out to the company they wouldn’t give me an answer why it was happening and eventually just ghosted me when I said I didn’t have the empty paint can anymore to send then the purchase code even though I didn’t want a replacement. WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE! I’ve reached out multiple times with zero response.
Date published: 2023-05-08
Rated 1 out of
5 by
DJ4741 from
Modern Eggshell, very disappointingUsed off black modern eggshell to paint new staircase handrails and spindles over a dark grey undercoat. The paint is too thick to get a nice flat finish without showing brush strokes but yet has really poor coverage resulting in needing 3 coats which look like it has been applied too thickly. Not impressed at all, wish I’d used a different paint.
Date published: 2023-12-05
Rated 1 out of
5 by
Catherine167 from
Not worth the priceThe paint is super watery and takes a lot of coats to cover.
Date published: 2023-09-16
Rated 1 out of
5 by
Anonymous from
Amazingly Poor ProductThis is not a professional product. Weeks after applying the paint it still sticks to any object that is placed on it. This paint was spec'd by an interior designer with no sense of the real world. If you want to get a finish that is reminiscent of early generation latex paint, that never really seems to dry, and really just is tedious and poorly designed... this is the paint for you.
Date published: 2023-08-21
Rated 1 out of
5 by
Jezz1234 from
Not blackSo off black that it’s dark blue, why would you like even advertise it with the word black in the name.
Back in 2010, we moved to an entirely water based range of finishes, becoming the first in the industry to do so. These low-odour, low-VOC finishes are easy to clean without harmful solvents. They are also certified child- and baby-safe in accordance with Safety of Toys Part 3: Migration of certain elements (EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021).
Exclusions: Casein Distemper, Wood Primer & Undercoat and Metal Primer & Undercoat.
Quality Finishes
Every one of our paint colours is available in a range of durable interior and exterior paint finishes, each rigorously tested to ensure an exceptional depth of colour and long-lasting finish. For the very best results, we always recommend using a Farrow & Ball Primer & Undercoat - see above for the correct tone for this colour.
Safety Information
Always read and follow the information on the product label.
All Farrow & Ball finishes except Limewash contain isothiazolinones, which may produce an allergic reaction. Farrow & Ball Limewash contains calcium hydroxide which can cause severe damage in contact with skin or eyes. For further information about our products, including guidance on safe use and application, click here to view our advice pages.
Limewash: Danger. Causes skin irritation. Causes serious eye damage. May cause respiratory irritation.
Exterior Eggshell and Exterior Masonry: Harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Contains isothiazolinones. May produce an allergic reaction.
All other finishes: Contains isothiazolinones. May produce an allergic reaction.
