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Gray or grey is the color of black and white mixed together.
Gray is the color of an elephant, cement, and pencil writing. 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]
[change] Meaning of gray
- The color gray represents pessimism; its opposite, optimism, is represented by the color rose. It also represents metal.
[change] Shades of grey colour comparison chart
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 |
|
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#778899 |
| slate grey |
|
|
#708090 |
| dark slate grey |
|
|
#2F4F4F |
|
op |
#0988FFF |
[change] References
- ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196
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