Hi Andy, For what it's worth. The Co. that I used to work for made dice cubes (unfinished state) for just about every dice mfg. in the US and for the world in fact. Black was the color least asked for we probably only shipped 2 boxes (1000 per box) a year total around the world, and none of the mfgs. ever ordered more than 500 cubes ea. TK Specialties here in Reno was our biggest buyer of black cubes. They made LE (short run) dice like the ones shown. I know they were expensive to make due to the special hot stamps and the difficulty of working with white on black. Plus add on to that a 10% waste factor.