39 Color names for "Grey"

Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in 700 CE. In Europe and North America, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with neutrality, conformity, boredom, uncertainty, old age, indifference, and modesty. Only one percent of respondents chose it as their favorite color.

Payne's grey is a dark blue-grey colour used in painting. The colour is named after William Payne, who painted watercolours in the late 18th century, who most likely developed the colour while trying to produce a mixer that was less intense than black. Payne's grey was deemed an obsolete term in the early 19th century, but is still used by artists today. The first recorded use of Payne's grey as a colour name in English was in 1835.

Dark Gray is a deep, neutral gray, darker than average gray but still versatile and modern. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Cadet grey (sometimes spelled cadet gray in parts of the United States) is a somewhat blue-greyish shade of the color grey. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912. Before 1912, the word cadet grey was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.

Light Gray is a soft, pale shade of gray, light enough to be used as a neutral background color. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Cadet color is a dark shade of cadet grey. The first recorded use of cadet as a color name in English was in 1915.

Stone gray is a color represented in the list of RAL classic colors from RAL colour standard. This is the main color on the Indian 500-rupee note.

This color is a representation of the color of bones. The first recorded use of bone as a color name in English was in the first decade of the 19th century (exact year uncertain).

Gray-green (also known as grayish-green, greenish-gray, emerald-gray, or green-gray) is a greenish-gray color.

This color was apparently formulated as an impression of the color that commissioned officers in a fictional space navy would wear.

Space cadet is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2007. This color is apparently a formulation of an impression of the color that cadets in space navy training would wear.

The BISU Visual Identity, or BISU Visual Identity System (VIS) is a set of coherent graphic styles that underlines the visual recognisability of Beijing International Studies University (BISU), providing clarity for the University's graphic identity. The system was developed by the University Relations and was officially launched on 30 December 2003. BISU Silver is described as a light grey and is used accompanied with BISU Maroon as the official color of Beijing International Studies University. The hexadecimal value of BISU Silver is DCDDDE. It is a CMYK color.

Marengo is a shade of gray (black with gray tinge) or blue colors. Sometimes the color is described as a color of a wet asphalt. In the cloth manufacturing industry, marengo usually refers to the color of the fabric and means black or dark brown with small inclusions of white. Sometimes the word refers to black fabric with white threads.

Old silver is a color formulated to resemble tarnished silver. The first recorded use of old silver as a color name in English was in 1905. The normalized color coordinates for old silver are identical to battleship gray.

Marengo is a shade of gray (black with gray tinge) or blue colors. Sometimes the color is described as a color of a wet asphalt. In the cloth manufacturing industry, marengo usually refers to the color of the fabric and means black or dark brown with small inclusions of white. Sometimes the word refers to black fabric with white threads. Marengo color became popular in Russia, and, at the beginning of the 19th century, there appeared another, light gray variation of the color called marengo-claire (marengo light).

Gunmetal is a shade of gray that has a bluish purple tinge. It describes the color of several metals used in industrial applications, such as tarnished gunmetal, or parkerized steel.

NIVO, short for Night Invisible Varnish Orfordness, was a dark grey-green finish applied to British night bomber aircraft between 1918 and 1939. It was developed in 1918 at Orford Ness to help make planes less visible at night, with a sheen that blended in with moonlit water. NIVO was used on various bombers like the Vickers Virginia, Handley Page Hyderabad, and others. By the mid-1930s, it was found to be too reflective under searchlights and was phased out before the introduction of newer bombers like the Vickers Wellington.

The color shown is Medium Gray, or Gray, in the X11 color names. The coordinates in X11 were set at 190 to prevent gray from appearing as white on 2-bit grayscale displays.

Ultimate Gray is the color that was chosen as the "2021 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

French gray is a color in the color spectrum. It traditionally has a slightly warmer, more yellow tone than simple gray.

The color ash gray is a representation of the color of ash. The first recorded use of ash gray as a color name in English was in 1374.

Sonic silver is a tone of silver included in Metallic FX crayons, specialty crayons formulated by Crayola in 2001.

Platinum is a color that is the metallic tint of pale grayish-white resembling the metal platinum. The first recorded use of platinum as a color name in English was in 1918.

Spanish gray is the color that is called gris (gray in Spanish) in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Gainsboro is a pale tone of gray. Prior to standardization as a web color, Gainsboro was included as one of the X11 color names. It was, however, absent from the original 1987 version of the list, but present in Paul Raveling's version which added, amongst other things, "ight and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples".

The historical name for this color is lavender gray. It is listed in A Dictionary of Color as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with lavender blue and lavender. (This book also designates a fourth shade of lavender, called old lavender). This color is similar to Prismacolor colored pencil PC 1026, Greyed Lavender.

Cadet blue is a grayish blue web color, with its first recorded use as a color name in English occurring in 1892. In 1987, cadet blue was formulated as one of the X11 colors, which later became known as the X11 web colors in the early 1990s.

The color Xanadu (#738678) has its origins in the natural world, specifically named after the Philodendron xanadu plant. The color Xanadu is a grayish-green hue, and it takes inspiration from the muted tones often found in the plant's leaves. The color ultimately comes from the 2001 Resene RGB Values List.

The web color dim gray is a dark tone of gray. The color name dim gray first came into use in 1987, when this color was formulated as one of the colors on the X11 color list, introduced that year.After the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991, these colors became known as the "X11 web colors".

Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate. As a tertiary color, slate is an equal mix of purple and green pigments. Slaty, referring to this color, is often used to describe birds. The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.

Roman silver, a blue-gray tone of silver, is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand.

Taupe gray is a muted, warm gray color with brown undertones.

Light slate gray is a pale, cool gray with blue undertones.

Crayola crayons have a color called silver which is a pale tone of silver color. This silver (Crayola) has been a Crayola color since 1903. Crayola silver is not a neutral grayscale color but a warm gray with a very slight tinge of orange-red.

Charcoal is a color that is a representation of the dark gray color of burned wood. The first recorded use of charcoal as a color name in English was in 1606.

Davy's gray is a dark gray color, made from powdered slate, iron oxide and carbon black named for Henry Davy. The first recorded use of Davy’s gray as a color name in English was around 1940.

The color name silver chalice for this tone of silver has been in use since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

Since version 3.2 of HTML "silver" is a name for one of the 16 basic-VGA-colors.

The color silver sand is a soft, muted shade that resembles the light grayish tones of fine sand mixed with a hint of metallic sheen. The color name silver sand for this silver-tone has been used since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.