was going to reply, ended up with a longer post so ill put it here
fun fact i almost never use pure white or black in my art! I find that the best palettes have slight tints and shade to their darks and lights as that is more akin to how we percieve things in real life.
I also find that it’s hard to use in many palettes because of how strongly contrasting it is
- colour is very relative so having both extremes of brightest and darkest affects yr other colours.
I would use pure white/black maybe if it was a smaller, stylised colour ramp.
you can see the difference quite clearly in this recent weekly i did
a lospec daily i did with pure white and black:
edited vers (only changed black and white)
*i prefer the last 2, the first is still a very apealing style, i just think that it’s much harder to do well.
another great example of tinted whites (and darks!)
give gordo some love!