Davy's grey
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| Davy's Grey | ||
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— Colour coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #555555 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (85, 85, 85) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (-°, 0%, 33 [1]%) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Davy's grey is a dark grey colour, made from powdered slate, iron oxide and carbon black named for Henry Davy.[2][3]
Another name for this colour is steel.[4]
The first recorded use of Davy’s grey as a colour name in English was in the 19th century (precise date uncertain).[5]
[edit] References
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to h code 555555:
- ^ Paterson, Ian (2003), A Dictionary of Colour (1st paperback ed.), London: Thorogood (published 2004), p. 134, ISBN 1854183753, OCLC 60411025
- ^ Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (2004), Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Butterworth-Heinemann, p. 139, ISBN 9780750657495, OCLC 56444720
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 116
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 194; Color Sample of Davy’s Grey: Page 117 Plate 47 Color Sample A4
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| Grey | Ash grey | Battleship grey | Black | Cadet grey | Charcoal | Cool grey | Davy's grey | Payne's grey | Silver |
| Slate grey | Taupe | Purple taupe | Medium taupe | Rose quartz | Taupe grey | Timberwolf | White | ||
| The samples shown above are only indicative. | |||||||||
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