Why do characters have blue tinted hair. Especially in DC with

>>94783756
Colouring limitations in older printing techniques meant pure black looked shit, so very often blue was used as shading in what would otherwise be a flat black. For instance the Original Spiderman design was actually Red and Black, and the blue was shading.

>>94783756
/co/ is the dumbest board

>>94783816
Thanks, fpbp

>>94783756

Because, particularly with newsprint, a big splash of black ink on a page would look like crap.

But if you simply thought about it, reasonably, with any sense of intelligence, you would have realized that.

They all literally had blue hair in the past.

>>94783816
This, however Kurt Busiek gave Samaritan in Astro City blue hair as a nod to this colouring technique.

>>94785061
Did you read that or figure it out independently, Anon?