According to the present invention, there can be provided a black dyestuff for heat-sensitive transfer record comprising at least one orange dyestuff represented by the formulaAr.sub.1 --N=N--Ar.sub.2 --N=N--Ar.sub.3 ( 1)[wherein each of Ar.sub.1, Ar.sub.2 and Ar.sub.3 is independently an aryl group which may have a substituent] and at least one blue dyestuff represented by the formula ##STR1## [wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is independently a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, nitro group, hydroxyl group, alkyl group which may have a substituent, alkoxy group, alkylsulfonylamino group or alkylcarbonylamino group, and each of R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 is independently an alkyl group which may have a substituent, and a black heat-sensitive transfer sheet in which the above-mentioned dyestuff is used.