Color coordinates #808080 B (,, ) (128, 128, 128) H (,,, ) (0, 0, 0, 50) (,, ) (?°, 0%, 50%) Source B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Grey () or gray (; ) is an between. It is a neutral color or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is a color 'without color,' because it can be composed of black and white.
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It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of and of. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the was in AD 700. Grey is the dominant spelling in and, although gray remained in common usage in the UK until the second half of the 20th century. Gray has been the preferred American spelling since approximately 1825, although grey is an accepted variant. In and, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with,,,,,,.
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Only one percent of respondents chose it as their favorite. Or variations on this shade is the standard color for U.S. Warships and those of many other navies, since it is less visible from a distance.
The battleship pictured is the, built in 1944. In history and art [ ] Antiquity through the Middle Ages [ ] In antiquity and the Middle Ages, grey was the color of undyed wool, and thus was the color most commonly worn by peasants and the poor. It was also the color worn by monks and friars of the and orders as a symbol of their vows of humility and poverty. Franciscan friars in England and Scotland were commonly known as the, and that name is now attached to many places in Great Britain. Portrait of, the founder of the,. He also chose grey as the color of humility.
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Renaissance and the Baroque [ ] During the Renaissance and the Baroque, grey began to play an important role in fashion and art. Black became the most popular color of the nobility, particularly in Italy, France, and Spain, and grey and white were harmonious with it. Grey was also frequently used for the drawing of oil paintings, a technique called. The painting would first be composed in grey and white, and then the colors, made with thin transparent glazes, would be added on top. The grisaille beneath would provide the shading, visible through the layers of color. Sometimes the grisaille was simply left uncovered, giving the appearance of carved stone. Grey was a particularly good background color for gold and for skin tones.
It became the most common background for the portraits of and for many of the paintings of, who used it to highlight the faces and costumes of the central figures. The palette of Rembrandt was composed almost entirely of somber colors. He composed his warm greys out of black pigments made from charcoal or burnt animal bones, mixed with lead white or a white made of lime, which he warmed with a little color from. In one painting, the portrait of Margaretha de Geer (1661), one part of a grey wall in the background is painted with a layer of dark brown over a layer of orange, red, and yellow earths, mixed with ivory black and some. Over this he put an additional layer of glaze made of mixture of,,.
Using these ingredients and many others, he made greys which had, according to art historian Philip Ball, 'an incredible subtlety of pigmentation.' The warm, dark and rich greys and browns served to emphasize the golden light on the faces in the paintings. Self-portrait, 1629.
Rembrandt placed his figures against extremely complex greys, made up of many tones and hints of color to highlight the face in the center. Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [ ] Grey became a highly fashionable color in the 18th century, both for women's dresses and for men's waistcoats and coats. It looked particularly luminous coloring the silk and satin fabrics worn by the nobility and wealthy. Women's fashion in the 19th century was dominated by Paris, while men's fashion was set by London. The grey business suit appeared in the mid-19th century in London; light grey in summer, dark grey in winter; replacing the more colorful palette of men's clothing early in the century. The clothing of women working in the factories and workshops of Paris in the 19th century was usually grey. This gave them the name of grisettes.
' Gris' or grey also meant drunk, and the name ' grisette' was also given to the lower class of Parisian prostitutes. Grey also became a common color for military uniforms; in an age of rifles with longer range, soldiers in grey were less visible as targets than those in blue or red. Grey was the color of the uniforms of the during the, and of the for active service wear from 1910 onwards. Several artists of the mid-19th century used different tones of grey to create memorable paintings; used tones of green-grey and blue grey to give harmony to his landscapes, and created a special grey for the background of the portrait of his mother, and for his own self-portrait. Whistler's arrangement of different tones of grey had an effect on the world of music, on the French composer.