Silhouettes

thumb|A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century A silhouette (, ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, but were

1926 animated film directed by Lotte Reiniger

an iconic set of billboards on Spanish roads

Optical illusion

video game song composed by ZUN; third track from the soundtrack of the 1998 video game Lotus Land Story

thumb|Pierre Gaveaux, 1821, by [[Edme Quenedey (1756–1830) after a physiognotrace]]

animation in which the characters are only visible as black silhouettes

2000 film by Michel Ocelot