Gray

This box shows the color gray.

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.

Meaning of gray

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

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) gainsboro #DCDCDC lightgray #D3D3D3 silver #C0C0C0 darkgray #A9A9A9 gray #808080 dimgray #696969 lightslategray #778899 slategray #708090 darkslategray #2F4F4F

Warm grey	Cool grey
Mixed with 6% yellow.	Mixed with 6% blue.

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• List of colors