Gray

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Gray or grey is the color of black and white mixed together.

Gray is the color of an elephant, cement, pencil writing, and rainy clouds. Gray often looks like someone made black lighter, but not so light that it is white.

In the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Ireland, and New Zealand, as well as a few other countries, this word is spelled grey. In the United States, it is spelled gray.

The first recorded use of gray as a color name in English was in 700. [1]

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Meaning of gray [change]

  • The color gray represents pessimism; its opposite, optimism, is represented by the color rose. It also represents metal.

Shades of grey colour comparison chart [change]

The chart below shows those shades of grey that are major web colours.

HTML Colour Name Sample Hex triplet
(rendered by name) (rendered by hex triplet)
light grey #D3D3D3
grey #808080
dark grey #A9A9A9
dim grey #696969
light slate grey #778899
slate grey #708090
dark slate grey #2F4F4F
op #0988FFF


References [change]

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196

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