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Grey
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808080
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128g=128b=128
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0m= 0y= 0k= 50
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0s=0v=50
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Two colors are called Complementary Colors if gray is produced when two colors are combined. Grey is its own complement. Consequently, gray remains gray when its color spectrum is inverted, and therefore has no opposite, or alternately is its own opposite.
- Gray symbolises mediocrity, the Background Noise .
- --- "Gray life", meaning mere existence without much sense or goal.
- --- A "gray person" is someone who goes unnoticed, a Wallflower .
- In a moral sense gray is either used
- --- Pejorative ly to describe situations that have no clear moral value, or
- --- Positive ly to balance an all-black or all-white view (for example, shades of gray = magnitudes of good/bad)
- Gray is associated with Autumn , bad weather and sadness.
- Gray has been used to describe the Industrialism as it is the color of Granite , Concrete and other City materials, as opposed to Green to describe Environmentalism , Chlorophyll and Plant s.
- Urban Camouflage is composed of patches of shades of gray, while Country Camouflage uses ranges of Brown and Green .
- Whilst the hair actually becomes white as one ages, it is often misinterpreted as gray (white next to others colours looking comparatively darker), and hence gray is associated with the elderly, and has inspired the name of the Gray Panthers and expressions such as Grey Pound .
- The substance that composes the Brain is referred to as "gray matter", and for that reason the color is associated with things intellectual.
- In Religion , gray is the color of Ashes , and therefore a Biblical symbol of mourning and repentance. It can be used during Lent or on special days of fasting and prayer.
- Gray was the color of the Confederate Army uniforms in the American Civil War .
- The " Grey Lady " is the nickname of the New York Times
- Feldgrau (field gray) was a common color of Wehrmacht uniforms.
; RGB : All the grey values in Grayscale are solutions of the inequality:
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;CMYK : All the gray values in grayscale are solutions of the inequality:
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:In theory it is also possible to achieve a grayscale with perfect inks when:
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;HSL : All the gray values in grayscale fit one of the following three equalities:
:: or (black) or (white).
;HSV : All the gray values in grayscale are solutions of the inequality:
:: when .
There are several shades of gray available for use with HTML and CSS .
Oddly, all are spelled with an except lightgr'''e'''y: this can cause unexpected errors (this discrepancy is inherited from the X11 Color List ). Note that some of these colors are not on the grayscale, but have a little Saturation .
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