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An achromatic gray is a gray color in which the red, green, and blue codes are exactly equal. The web colors gray, gainsboro, light gray, dark gray, and dim gray are all achromatic colors. A chromatic gray is a gray color in which the red, green, and blue codes are not exactly equal, but are close to each other, which is what makes it a shade ...
Grey (more common in Commonwealth English) or gray (more common in American English) [ 2] is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma and therefore no hue. [ 3] It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash, and of lead.
Color ( American English) or colour ( British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference. For most humans, colors are perceived in the ...
Eigengrau ( German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ ), also called Eigenlicht ( Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light. The term Eigenlicht dates back to the nineteenth century, [ 1] and ...
Category:Shades of gray. Appearance. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Types of gray. Colors resembling gray. This category is for all varieties, not only shades in the technical sense. See also the categories Shades of black and shades of white.
Cadet grey (spelled gray in American English) is a somewhat blue-greyish shade of the colour grey. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a colour name in English was in 1912. [1] [ inconsistent ] Before 1912, the word cadet grey was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.
Web-safe color. v. t. e. In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a greyscale (more common in Commonwealth English) or grayscale (more common in American English) image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information.
Blue-gray. Livid is a medium bluish - gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". [ 1] The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622.