Slate Gray

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

Famous quotes containing the word gray:

    No gray hairs streak my soul,
    no grandfatherly fondness there!
    I shake the world with the might of my voice,
    and walk—handsome,
    twentytwoyearold.
    Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)