Monochrome is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is composed of or using only one color, often referring to a photograph, painting, fashion, or design. For example: "I love the modern, monochrome look of her living room."
When you think about it, monochrome is just as festive a dress code as red and green.
2. Sliding caption column: changed heading colour to a monochrome scheme to improve readability.
Shot in deep, glowing monochrome, with the camera completely still for all but two scenes, Ida is a study in expressive silence and composure.
His and hers prints Sophie Ellis Bextor and Richard Jones in matching monochrome: you have been warned.
Subotsky's Marrakech seemed a world away from Power's still, almost stately, composite portraits of the city and its people and Goldberg's mix of monochrome and colour portraits and landscapes.
The design is a crisp monochrome, with confident accents of colourful fabrics - a set of fuchsia chairs here, a shocking green sofa there.
Sir Wilson Whineray is best remembered by rugby union followers in Britain for a try that was replayed in grainy monochrome on many a winter's afternoon on Grandstand.
The spandexed men guided her through multiple monochrome wardrobe changes and wig switches in five short minutes.
This monochrome palette, this disturbing example of what Grayson Perry recently described as "the default man", is bad for political engagement and grossly unrepresentative of the country.
Her preference for black-and-white photography over colour is well documented; eschewing a light meter, she used the back of her hand to assess the prevailing conditions, which yielded more reliable results in monochrome.
Indeed, today a sort of inverted snobbery operates, so accents either have to be regional or a curiously bland monochrome, often called "Estuary English".
