The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for fabricating display panels and color filter substrates. The fabricating methods include: providing a glass substrate having a flexible area; forming a etching material layer on a surface of the glass substrate; etching the etching material layer to form black matrices on the glass substrate, wherein the black matrix of the flexible area, which is narrower than the black matrix on the other area, corresponds to a vertical projection of a opaque area between pixels when the flexible area is bending. Hence, the present invention may reduce shadows and improve the transmittance by above methods.