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 (sometimes called olive) is an equal mix of purple and green pigments.
The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.
Read more about Slate Gray: Slate Gray in Human Culture
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“Man’s feeble race what ills await!
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Disease, and Sorrow’s weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)