Gray/Grey | |
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Common connotations | |
pessimism, depression, boredom, neutrality, undefinedness, old age, contentment and elegance | |
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Hex triplet | #BEBEBE |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (190, 190, 190) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (77, 0, 0°) |
Source | HTML/CSS[1] |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness. A selection of a number of these various colors is shown below.
Below is a chart showing the computer web color grays. An achromatic gray is a gray color in which the red, green, and blue codes are exactly equal. The web colors gray, gainsboro, light gray, dark gray, and dim gray are all achromatic colors. A chromatic gray is a gray color in which the red, green, and blue codes are not exactly equal, but are close to each other, which is what makes it a shade of gray.
HTML color name | Sample | Hex triplet | |
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gainsboro | #DCDCDC | ||
lightgray | #D3D3D3 | ||
silver | #C0C0C0 | ||
darkgray | #A9A9A9 | ||
gray | #808080 | ||
dimgray | #696969 | ||
lightslategray | #778899 | ||
slategray | #708090 | ||
darkslategray | #2F4F4F |
The colors white and black are not usually thought of as shades of gray, but they can be thought of as shades of achromatic gray, as both contain equal amounts of red, blue and green. White is at the extreme upper end of the achromatic value scale and black is at the extreme lower end of the achromatic value scale, with all the colors normally considered tones of achromatic gray colors in between. Since achromatic colors have no hue, the hue code (h code) is left blank for achromatic colors (usually marked as a dash).
Main article: White |
White | |
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Hex triplet | #FFFFFF |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 255) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (100, 0, 0°) |
Source | By definition |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness. White is the lightest possible color.
Main article: Black |
Black | |
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Hex triplet | #000000 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 0, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 0%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (0, 0, 0°) |
Source | By definition |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Black is the darkest possible color. While this platonic ideal black is never found with actual pigments or other coloring, sufficiently dark items are generally referred to as "black".
Achromatic grays are colors in which the RGB (red, green, and blue) values are exactly equal. Since achromatic grays have no hue, the hue code (the h in the hsv values of the color) is indicated with a dash. Achromatic grays are the axis of the color sphere, with white at the north pole and black at the south pole of the color sphere. The various tones of achromatic gray are along the axis of the color sphere from white at the top of the axis to black at the bottom of the axis.
Gray/Grey | |
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Hex triplet | #808080 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (128, 128, 128) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 50%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (54, 0, 0°) |
Source | HTML/CSS[1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Medium gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the color gray.
The first recorded use of gray as a color name in the English language was in 700.[2]
This tone of gray (HTML gray) is universally used as the standard for gray because it is that tone of gray which is halfway between white and black.[citation needed]
Gainsboro | |
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Hex triplet | #DCDCDC |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (220, 220, 220) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 86%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (88, 0, 0°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Greenish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the web color Gainsboro
Gainsboro is a pale tone of gray.
Prior to standardization as a web color, Gainsboro was included as one of the X11 color names.[3] It was, however, absent from the original 1987 version of the list,[4] but present in Paul Raveling's version[5] which added, amongst other things, "[l]ight and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples".[6]
Light gray | |
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Hex triplet | #D3D3D3 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (211, 211, 211) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 83%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (85, 0, 0°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the web color light gray
Silver | |
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Hex triplet | #C0C0C0 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (192, 192, 192) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (78, 0, 0°) |
Source | HTML/CSS[1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Silver (color) |
Displayed at right is the web color silver
This color is a representation of the color of the metal silver.
This is supposed to be a metallic color; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
Medium Gray | |
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Hex triplet | #BEBEBE |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (190, 190, 190) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (77, 0, 0°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the color medium gray, or gray in the X11 color names, which is lighter than the HTML/CSS gray shown below. The coordinates in the X11 were set at 190 to avoid gray being displayed as white on 2-bit grayscale displays.[7]
See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.
Spanish Gray | |
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Hex triplet | #989898 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (152, 152, 152) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 60%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (63, 0, 0°) |
Source | Gallego and Sanz[8] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Medium gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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.
Dim gray | |
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Hex triplet | #696969 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (105, 105, 105) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 41%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (44, 0, 0°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the web color dim gray
This color is a dark tone of gray.
Davy's gray | |
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Hex triplet | #555555 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (85, 85, 85) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 33%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (36, 0, 0°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Davy's gray is a dark gray color, made from powdered slate, iron oxide and carbon black named for Henry Davy.[9][10]
The first recorded use of Davy’s gray as a color name in English was around 1940.[11][12]
Jet | |
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Hex triplet | #343434 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (52, 52, 52) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 20%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (22, 0, 0°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Black |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Shades of black (colors) § Jet |
The color jet is displayed at right
The color jet is a representation of the color of the mineraloid jet.
The first recorded use of jet as a color name in English was in 1450.[13]
Main article: Middle gray |
A middle gray is a tone that is in some sense about halfway between black and white. See the main article for more in-depth information.
The shades in the rightmost column will only be correct if viewed on a calibrated monitor; you can check if the 50% luminance level of your monitor is correct here.
Note that LCD screens, even when correctly calibrated, often have a brightness that varies considerably depending on the viewing angle. When using the luminance level checker above, try stepping back and changing your position until the hatched rectangle in the center of the gray field appears to dissolve into the background.
If the hatched rectangle does not appear to be of the same brightness, then the "middle grays" rendered in the table are not correctly displayed on your screen.
Middle gray as defined by | Year | CIEXYZ relative luminance | Appearance |
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Geomean of 60:1 | 1903 | 12.91% | |
Munsell, Sloan & Godlove | 1933 | 18% | |
L*a*b* | 1976 | 18.42% | |
sRGB | 1996 | 21.40% | |
Munsell's original N5 | 1906 | 25.00% | |
NCS S 5000-N | 1964 | 26% | |
Mac, pre-OS X 10.6 | 1984 | ≈ 30% | |
CIECAM02 lightness | 2002 | * | |
CIECAM97s lightness | 1997 | * | |
50% Luminance | 1931 | 50.00% |
* Context-dependent; an estimate is displayed here taking the environment where it appears
in the article into account and assuming a neutrally lit surround of 200 cd/m2.
Off-grays are colors that are very close to achromatic grays, but whose red, green, and blue color codes are not exactly equal.
Xanadu | |
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Hex triplet | #738678 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (115, 134, 120) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (136°, 14%, 53%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (54, 13, 138°) |
Source | 11 Colors You've Probably Never Heard Of |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed in the adjacent image is the color xanadu.
The color "xanadu" is a greenish-gray color whose name is derived from the Philodendron.[14]
Main article: Platinum (color) |
Platinum | |
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Hex triplet | #E5E4E2 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (229, 228, 226) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (40°, 1%, 90%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (91, 2, 68°) |
Source | Maerz and Paul[15] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Yellowish white |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Platinum is a color that is the metallic tint of pale grayish-white resembling the metal platinum.
This is supposed to be a metallic color; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
The first recorded use of platinum as a color name in English was in 1918.[16]
Ash gray | |
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Hex triplet | #B2BEB5 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (178, 190, 181) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (135°, 6%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (76, 8, 138°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed in the adjacent image is the color ash 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.[17]
"Battleship grey" redirects here. For the Tiësto song, see Battleship Grey. |
Battleship gray | |
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Hex triplet | #848482 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (132, 132, 130) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 2%, 52%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 2, 86°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Medium gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color battleship gray is displayed in the adjacent image. It is so called because the color is the shade of gray from the specular micaceous hematite paint used for rustproofing iron and steel battleships.[18]
Gunmetal | |
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Hex triplet | #2A3439 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (42, 52, 57) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (200°, 26%, 22%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (21, 6, 224°) |
Source | Encycolorpedia |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Blackish green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Gunmetal is a shade of gray that has a bluish purple tinge.[19] It describes the color of several metals used in industrial applications, such as tarnished gunmetal, or parkerized or blued steel.
Nickel | |
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Hex triplet | #727472 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (114, 116, 114) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (120°, 2%, 45%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (49, 2, 128°) |
Source | [20][21] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark greenish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Nickel is a color that resembles the metal nickel. The coins commonly called "nickels" in the United States are a slightly lighter shade of this color.
This is supposed to be a metallic color; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
Charcoal | |
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Hex triplet | #36454F |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (54, 69, 79) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (204°, 32%, 31%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (28, 12, 231°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark grayish blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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.[22]
Stone gray | |
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Hex triplet | #928E85 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (146, 142, 133) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (42°, 9%, 57%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (59, 8, 69°) |
Source | List of RAL colors |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light grayish olive |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Stone gray[23] 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.
Cool grays have noticeably bluish, greenish, or violetish hues.
Cool gray | |
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Hex triplet | #9090C0 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (144, 144, 192) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (240°, 25%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (61, 40, 266°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light purplish blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Cool gray, is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue.
This color is a dull shade of blue-gray.
This color is identical with color sample No. 203 (identified as gray blue) at the following website: http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-g.htm—The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955), a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.
Poet George Sterling once wrote a poem calling San Francisco the "cool grey city of love"[24] The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.
Cadet gray | |
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Hex triplet | #91A3B0 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (145, 163, 176) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (205°, 18%, 69%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (66, 16, 231°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Cadet gray |
Cadet gray is a slightly bluish shade of gray. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912.[25]
Before 1912, the word cadet gray was used as a name for a type of military issue uniforms. Most famously, it was the color of the uniforms of the Confederate Army. In 1815, it had earlier become the color of the uniforms of the United States Military Academy (West Point).[26]
Blue-gray | |
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Hex triplet | #6699CC |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (102, 153, 204) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (210°, 50%, 80%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (62, 54, 244°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Blue-gray |
Blue-gray was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.
Glaucous | |
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Hex triplet | #6082B6 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (96, 130, 182) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (216°, 47%, 71%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (54, 51, 250°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Glaucous |
Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning "bluish-gray", from the Greek glaukos) is used to describe the pale gray or blue appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus), glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens), glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa).
Slate gray | |
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Hex triplet | #708090 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (112, 128, 144) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (210°, 22%, 56%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (53, 17, 239°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: 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.
The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.[27]
Gray-green | |
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Hex triplet | #5E716A |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (94, 113, 106) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (158°, 17%, 44%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (46, 10, 161°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Gray-green (also known as grayish-green, greenish-gray, emerald-gray, or green-gray) is a greenish-gray color.
Marengo | |
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Hex triplet | #4C5866 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (76, 88, 102) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (212°, 25%, 40%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (37, 14, 242°) |
Source | [28][29] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Marengo (color) |
Marengo is a shade of gray (black with gray tinge) or blue colors.[30][31] Sometimes the color is described as the color of a wet asphalt.
Warm grays are colors that are noticeably brownish, pinkish grays, or reddish purple grays. The color brown is itself a dark shade of orange. Brown colors also include dark shades of rose, red, and amber. Pink colors include light tones of rose, red, and orange. These tones of pink become warm grays when they are mixed with gray.
Puce | |
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Hex triplet | #CC8899 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (204, 136, 153) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (345°, 33%, 80%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (64, 43, 356°) |
Source | 99colors.net |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark pink |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Puce is the French word for flea.
Main article: Puce |
Puce has been in use as a color name in French since the 14th century.
Rose quartz | |
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Hex triplet | #AA98A9 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (170, 152, 169) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (303°, 11%, 67%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (65, 14, 310°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale purple |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Rose (color) § Rose quartz |
There is a grayish tone of rose called rose quartz.
The first recorded use of rose quartz as a color name in English was in 1926.[32]
Cinereous | |
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Hex triplet | #98817B |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (152, 129, 123) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (12°, 19%, 60%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (56, 16, 27°) |
Source | Maerz and Paul[33] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light grayish brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Cinereous |
Cinereous is a color, ashy gray in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a gray color tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes).
The first recorded use of cinereous as a color name in English was in 1661.[34]
Rocket metallic | |
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Hex triplet | #8A7F8D |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (138, 127, 141) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (287°, 10%, 55%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 11, 299°) |
Source | Resene |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Purplish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color rocket metallic.
Rocket metallic is a purplish tone of gray.
This is supposed to be a metallic color; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
Rocket metallic is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "rocket metallic" was formulated in 1999.
Taupe | |
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Hex triplet | #483C32 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (72, 60, 50) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (27°, 31%, 28%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (26, 11, 47°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark grayish yellowish brown |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Main article: Taupe |
The color displayed at right matches the color sample called taupe referenced below in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the world standard for color terms before the invention of computers. However, the word taupe may often be used to refer to lighter shades of taupe today, and therefore another name for this color is dark taupe.
The first use of taupe as a color name in English was in the early 19th century.[35]