Black ribbon

Individuals or organizations display the ribbon in commemoration of victims after specific incidents.

Some examples include: The search engine Google, which often changes the company's logo to a Google Doodle commemorating timely events, has used the black ribbon to mark a number of incidents.

These include the Charlie Hebdo shooting,[7][8] the charter flight crash in Colombia in November 2016,[9] the 2017 Portugal wildfires,[10] and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

[11] April 9, 2017, Google Arabic displayed a black ribbon as a mark of respect and sympathy for victims of 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt.

[12][13] To show sympathy for victims of the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Turkish Wikipedia and Apple's website homepage in Turkey changed to show a glowing black ribbon atop a dark background.