What about Monochrome?
You will often hear the more geeky digital folks use the term monochrome for black and white. I don’t like that term and you won’t find me using it in this book. There are several reasons for this. First, monochrome is not a synonym for black-and-white, though it is often used that way. Monochrome refers to an image that is based on one color and all of its shades from dark to light, such as black for black and white, but it also refers to images that are all red, all green, all blue and so forth. So black and white is monochrome, but monochrome is not necessarily black and white.
Also, black and white is a term that has been part of photography since photography began, plus it is part of the art world. You will never ...
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