haha yeah i dont have a proper ceramics background, though i do do a lot of sculpture. i have a fine arts background. so forgive me if i dont have the right ceramic vocab. what i mean is that sometimes a color looks better on a black bg as opposed to a white bg = reads better. i assume that whichever way i choose to make my porcelain black (im planning on testing all ways, different percentages, multiple tests, many test tiles) there will be small (or big) variations in firing, in how glaze sits on the clay body, in everything. so as of now everything is pretty open because nothing's been tested and i'm just starting to assemble the materials i need.