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  2. Shades of black - Wikipedia

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    Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity. [1] In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. It decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a "shade of black" is always a pure black itself and a "tint of black" would be a ...

  3. Shades of gray - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. List of RAL colours - Wikipedia

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    Grey value calculated from (0.2126 × red) + (0.7152 × green) + (0.0722 × blue) [12] CIE L*a*b* values; sRGB value expressed as hue, saturation and lightness (HSL) device-independent CMYK value: cyan, magenta, yellow, black or key; LRV, but a consistent light reflectance value is not obtainable from pearlescent or metallic colours

  5. Grey - Wikipedia

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    Grey (more frequent British English) or gray (more frequent 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. [4]

  6. White matter - Wikipedia

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    White matter is composed of bundles, which connect various grey matter areas (the locations of nerve cell bodies) of the brain to each other, and carry nerve impulses between neurons. Myelin acts as an insulator, which allows electrical signals to jump , rather than coursing through the axon, increasing the speed of transmission of all nerve ...

  7. Grey or Gray, Which Spelling Is Correct? - AOL

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    Is it 'Grey' or 'Gray'? The correct spelling of the word gray is a grey area

  8. Color mixing - Wikipedia

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    There are three types of color mixing models, depending on the relative brightness of the resultant mixture: additive, subtractive, and average. [1] In these models, mixing black and white will yield white, black and gray, respectively. Physical mixing processes, e.g. mixing light beams or oil paints, will follow one or a hybrid of these 3 ...

  9. Color term - Wikipedia

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    A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color (which is affected by visual context) which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system , or to an underlying physical property (such as a specific wavelength of visible light ).