15 Color names for "Shades Of Light Gray"

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.

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.

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.

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).

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'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622. There is a range of colors called livid colors that combine the colors blue and gray.

The color Iceberg is a soft, pale shade of blue that evokes the cold, crisp, and serene qualities of icebergs floating in the ocean. The first recorded use of iceberg as a color name in English was in 1921. The color displayed in the color box matches the color called iceberg in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color".

Blue-gray was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

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.

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.

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

Blue bell is a shade of blue-gray. It is also a Crayola color. It represents the bluebell flower. The first recorded use of bluebell as a color name in English was in 1920.

Cool gray, is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray. Poet George Sterling once wrote a poem calling San Francisco the "cool grey city of love" The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.

The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912.