inky

Etymology

ink + -y

adj

1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
   One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […] 1870, The Shamrock, volume 8, page 18
2. Spattered or stained with ink.
3. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
   The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea. 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24