Solvent-free, black pigmented, silk-matt emulsion paint for interior use. For use as a “shadow color” of open and suspended ceiling and wall structures in sales or presentation rooms. Substrates such as concrete and cleaned zinc components (trapezoidal sheet metal, ventilation ducts, etc.) can be coated in one operation without primer. Suitable for all interior substrates such as plasters of mortar groups P II and P III, gypsum plasters of mortar group P IV, concrete/fiber cement boards, gypsum plasterboards, glass fabrics, glass and cellulose fleeces, woodchip as well as textured or paper wallpapers and for recoating intact old dispersion-based coatings.