Shades of gray

Black
Black
Color coordinates
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);

White
White
Color coordinates
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);

Gray/Grey
Gray/Grey
Common connotations
	pessimism, depression, boredom, neutrality, undefinedness, old age, contentment and elegance
Color coordinates
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
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

An accepted version of this page, accepted on 25 July 2020, was based on this revision.

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.

Chart of computer web color grays

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
HTML color name	By name	By hex triplet	Hex triplet
gainsboro			#DCDCDC
lightgray			#D3D3D3
silver			#C0C0C0
darkgray			#A9A9A9
gray			#808080
dimgray			#696969
lightslategray			#778899
slategray			#708090
darkslategray			#2F4F4F

White and black

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).

White

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.

Black

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

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.

Gainsboro

Gainsboro

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DCDCDC
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(220, 220, 220)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 86%)
CIELCh_uv (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.^[2] It was, however, absent from the original 1987 version of the list,^[3] but present in Paul Raveling's version^[4] which added, amongst other things, "[l]ight and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples".^[5]

Light gray

Light gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#D3D3D3
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(211, 211, 211)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 83%)
CIELCh_uv (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

Silver

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#C0C0C0
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(192, 192, 192)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 75%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(78, 0, 0°)
Source	HTML/CSS^[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light gray
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Medium Gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#BEBEBE
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(190, 190, 190)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 75%)
CIELCh_uv (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.^[6]

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.

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Spanish gray

Spanish Gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#989898
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(152, 152, 152)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 60%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(63, 0, 0°)
Source	Gallego and Sanz^[7]
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.

Gray

Gray/Grey

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#808080
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(128, 128, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 50%)
CIELCh_uv (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.^[8]

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.

Dim gray

Dim gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#696969
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(105, 105, 105)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 41%)
CIELCh_uv (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

Davy's gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#555555
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(85, 85, 85)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 33%)
CIELCh_uv (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

Jet

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#343434
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(52, 52, 52)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 0%, 20%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(22, 0, 0°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Black
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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]

Middle grays

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.

Middle gray as defined by	Relative whiteness (≙ CIEXYZ luminance)	sRGB brightness	CIELAB lightness	gamma correction	RGB value for sRGB monitors
Geomean of 60:1	12.91%	39.46%	42.63%	2.95	rgb(101,101,101) or #656565
Lab	18.42%	46.63%	50.00%	2.44	rgb(119,119,119) or #777777
18% gray card	20.00%	48.45%	51.84%	2.32	rgb(124,124,124) or #7C7C7C
sRGB	21.40%	50.00%	53.39%	2.22	rgb(128,128,128) or #808080
Mac, pre-OS X 10.6	28.72%	57.23%	60.53%	1.80	rgb(146,146,146) or #929292
Absolute whiteness	50.00%	73.54%	76.07%	1.00	rgb(188,188,188) or #BCBCBC

Off-grays

Off-grays are colors that are very close to achromatic grays, but whose red, green, and blue color codes are not exactly equal.

Xanadu

Xanadu

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#738678
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(115, 134, 120)
HSV (h, s, v)	(136°, 14%, 53%)
CIELCh_uv (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 at right is the color xanadu

The color "xanadu" is a greenish-gray color whose name is derived from the Philodendron.^[14]

Platinum

Platinum

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E5E4E2
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(229, 228, 226)
HSV (h, s, v)	(40°, 1%, 90%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(91, 2, 68°)
Source	[1]/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

Ash gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#B2BEB5
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(178, 190, 181)
HSV (h, s, v)	(135°, 6%, 75%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(76, 8, 138°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Pale green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right 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 gray

Battleship gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#848482
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(132, 132, 130)
HSV (h, s, v)	(60°, 2%, 52%)
CIELCh_uv (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 at right. 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

Gunmetal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#2A3439
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(42, 52, 57)
HSV (h, s, v)	(200°, 26%, 22%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(21, 6, 224°)
Source	Encycolorpedia
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Blackish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color gunmetal is displayed on the right

Gunmetal may actually refer to a shade of gray that has a bluish purple tinge.

Nickel

Nickel

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#727472
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(114, 116, 114)
HSV (h, s, v)	(120°, 2%, 45%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(49, 2, 128°)
Source	^[19]^[20]
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

Charcoal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#36454F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(54, 69, 79)
HSV (h, s, v)	(204°, 32%, 31%)
CIELCh_uv (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.^[21]

Stone gray

Stone gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#928E85
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(146, 142, 133)
HSV (h, s, v)	(42°, 9%, 57%)
CIELCh_uv (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^[22] 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

Cool grays have noticeably bluish, greenish, or violetish hues.

Cool gray

Cool gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#9090C0
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(144, 144, 192)
HSV (h, s, v)	(240°, 25%, 75%)
CIELCh_uv (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"^[23] The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.

Cadet gray

Cadet gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#91A3B0
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(145, 163, 176)
HSV (h, s, v)	(205°, 18%, 69%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(66, 16, 231°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Grayish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^[24]

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).^[25]

Blue-gray

Blue-gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6699CC
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(102, 153, 204)
HSV (h, s, v)	(210°, 50%, 80%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(62, 54, 244°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Blue-gray was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Glaucous

Glaucous

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6082B6
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(96, 130, 182)
HSV (h, s, v)	(216°, 47%, 71%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(54, 51, 250°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Moderate blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Slate gray

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#708090
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(112, 128, 144)
HSV (h, s, v)	(210°, 22%, 56%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(53, 17, 239°)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Grayish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^[26]

Gray-green

Gray-green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#5E716A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(94, 113, 106)
HSV (h, s, v)	(158°, 17%, 44%)
CIELCh_uv (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, or green-gray) is a greenish-gray color.

Marengo

Marengo

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#4C5866
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(76, 88, 102)
HSV (h, s, v)	(212°, 25%, 40%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(37, 14, 242°)
Source	^[27]^[28]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Grayish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Marengo is a shade of gray (black with gray tinge) or blue colors.^[29]^[30] Sometimes the color is described as the color of a wet asphalt.

Warm grays

Warm grays are colors that are noticeably brownish, pinkish grays, or reddish purple grays. The color brown is itself is 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

Puce

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#CC8899
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(204, 136, 153)
HSV (h, s, v)	(345°, 33%, 80%)
CIELCh_uv (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.

Puce has been in use as a color name in French since the 14th century.

Rose quartz

Rose quartz

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#AA98A9
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(170, 152, 169)
HSV (h, s, v)	(303°, 11%, 67%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(65, 14, 310°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Pale purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^[31]

Cinereous

Cinereous

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#98817B
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(152, 129, 123)
HSV (h, s, v)	(12°, 19%, 60%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(56, 16, 27°)
Source	Maerz and Paul^[32]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light grayish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^[33]

Rocket metallic

Rocket metallic

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#8A7F8D
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(138, 127, 141)
HSV (h, s, v)	(287°, 10%, 55%)
CIELCh_uv (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

Taupe

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#483C32
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(72, 60, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(27°, 31%, 28%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(26, 11, 47°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark grayish yellowish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^[34]

Note

^ LCD screens, even when correctly calibrated, often have a brightness that varies considerably depending on the viewing angle. Try stepping back and changing your position until the checkered image in the center of the absolute middle gray (50% relative whiteness) appears to dissolve into the background. If the image does not appear to be of the same brightness, then the "middle grays" rendered in the table are NOT correctly displayed on your screen. (Also take care to make sure your browser window is not zoomed since any magnification may distort the brightness depending on how your browser adjusts for gamma when blending the pixels, e.g. rendering the zoomed image at sRGB middle gray, or 21% whiteness, instead of 50%.).

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^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Platinum: Page 113 Plate 45 Color Sample A3
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^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
^ Maerz and Paul, p. 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: p. 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
^ Maerz and Paul, p. 205; Discussion of Color Taupe, p. 183; Color Sample of Taupe: p. 55 Plate 16 Color Sample A6

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[14] LCD screens, even when correctly calibrated, often have a brightness that varies considerably depending on the viewing angle. Try stepping back and changing your position until the checkered image in the center of the absolute middle gray (50% relative whiteness) appears to dissolve into the background. If the image does not appear to be of the same brightness, then the "middle grays" rendered in the table are NOT correctly displayed on your screen. (Also take care to make sure your browser window is not zoomed since any magnification may distort the brightness depending on how your browser adjusts for gamma when blending the pixels, e.g. rendering the zoomed image at sRGB middle gray, or 21% whiteness, instead of 50%.).

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[11] Maerz and Paul, p. 194; Color Sample of Davy’s Grey: p. 117 Plate 47 Color Sample A4

[12] Davy's gray. Google Ngram Viewer

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[16] The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called platinum in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color platinum is displayed on page 113, Plate 45, Color Sample A3.

[17] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Platinum: Page 113 Plate 45 Color Sample A3

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Chart of computer web color grays

White and black

White

Black

Achromatic grays

Gainsboro

Light gray

Silver

Medium gray

Spanish gray

Gray

Dim gray

Davy's gray

Jet

Middle grays

Off-grays

Xanadu

Platinum

Ash gray

Battleship gray

Gunmetal

Nickel

Charcoal

Stone gray

Cool grays

Cool gray

Cadet gray

Blue-gray

Glaucous

Slate gray

Gray-green

Marengo

Warm grays

Puce

Rose quartz

Cinereous

Rocket metallic

Taupe

See also

Note

References

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