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25. Dark Gray
HTML Hex for Dark Gray is #A9A9A9
Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white, a neutral or
achromatic color, meaning literally a color "without color." 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
AD 700. Grey is the British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, New Zealand and
South African spelling, although gray remained in common usage in the UK until
the second half of the 20th century. Gray is the preferred American spelling
since approximately 1825, although grey is an accepted variant.
Grey comes from the Middle English grai or grei, from the Anglo-Saxon graeg,
and is related to the German grau. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, grey was
the color of undyed wool, and thus
was the color most commonly worn by peasants and the poor. It was also the
color worn by monks of the Franciscan order, Cistercian Order and the Capucine
Order as a symbol of their vows of humility and poverty. Franciscan monks in
England and Scotland were commonly known as the Grey friars, and that name is
now attached to many places in Great Britain.
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