disclosed is a liquid crystal display device in which a twisted nematic type liquid crystal display element is used as a light shutter and combined with color polarizer plates to provide color display , characterized in that a nematic crystal added with a black coloring matter is used and in that at least one of the polarizer plates has a degree of polarization of about 80 % or less . preferably , the rate of addition of the black coloring matter is limited to about 1 . 5 % or less .