Article having improved reflectance suppression comprising a substrate formed of a material having a reststrahlen band and having at least one surface and a coating carried by said one surface. The coating comprises at least one period with each period consisting of a spacer layer and an absorber layer. The spacer layer is formed of a material having a low index of refraction and has an optical thickness ranging from approximately one quarter of a wavelength and less. The spacer layer also has low absorption in the visible region of the spectrum. The absorber layer is formed of a material which has substantial absorption near the reststrahlen band. The absorber layer has a complex index of refraction as a function of wavelength which is relatively close to the index of refraction of the substrate.