There are many tints and shades of the color gray. A selection of these various colors are shown below.

Gray/Grey
— Common connotations —
depression, boredom, neutrality, undefinedness, old age, contentment and speed
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#808080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(128, 128, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 50%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Chart of computer web color grays[link]

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.

Variations of gray[link]

White and Black[link]

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[link]

White
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFFFFF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 255, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(-°, 0%, 100%)
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.

Black[link]

Black
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#000000
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(–°, –%, 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.

Achromatic grays[link]

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[link]

Gainsboro
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#DCDCDC
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(220, 220, 220)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 86[2]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color gainsboro.

Gainsboro is a pale tone of gray.

There is no evidence the name gainsboro was used as a color name before it was included as one of the X11 colors when they were formulated in 1987.

Light gray[link]

Light Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#D3D3D3
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(211, 211, 211)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 83[3]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color light gray.

Medium gray (gray (X11))[link]

Gray (X11)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#BEBEBE
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(190, 190, 190)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 75[4]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color medium gray, i.e. gray as defined in the X11 color names, which is lighter than the HTML/CSS gray shown below.

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.

Dark medium gray (dark gray (X11))[link]

Dark Gray (X11)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#A9A9A9
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(169, 169, 169)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 66[5]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color dark medium gray, i.e. dark gray as defined in the X11 color names. This color, altho it is called dark gray in X11, is actually lighter than the HTML/CSS gray shown below because it is called dark gray in relation to the X11 gray shown above.

Gray[link]

Gray/Grey
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#808080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(128, 128, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 50[6]%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1]
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.^[7]

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[link]

Dim Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#696969
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(105, 105, 105)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(--°, 0%, 41[8]%)
Source		X11
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[link]

Davy's Grey
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#555555
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(85, 85, 85)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(-°, 0%, 33 [9]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Davy's grey is a dark grey colour, made from powdered slate, iron oxide and carbon black named for Henry Davy.^[10][11]

Another name for this colour is steel.^[12]

The first recorded use of Davy’s grey as a colour name in English was in the 19th century (precise date uncertain).^[13]

Off-grays[link]

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

Platinum[link]

Platinum is a color that is the metallic tint of pale grayish-white resembling the metal platinum.

The first recorded use of platinum as a color name in English was in 1918.^[14]

Ash gray[link]

Wood ash from a campfire

Ash gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#B2BEB5
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(178, 190, 181)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(135°, 6%, 75[15]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color ash gray.

The color ash gray is a representation of the average color of ash.

The first recorded use of ash gray as a color name in English was in 1374.^[16]

Battleship gray[link]

Battleship Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#848482
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(132, 132, 130)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(60°, 2%, 52[17]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color battleship gray is displayed at right. It is so called because the color is the drab shade of gray used for battleship camouflage. It is also the color British Railways location cases are painted, after buying the excess paint from the Royal Navy following World War II.

Charcoal[link]

Charcoal
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#36454F
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(54, 69, 79)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(204°, 31%, 31[18]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
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.^[19]

Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Charcoal (color sample #187).

Cool grays[link]

Cool grays are colors that are noticeably blueish gray, cyanish gray, greenish gray, or violetish gray.

Cool gray[link]

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 #203 (identified as a tone of "gray blue" or "grayish 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^[20] The phrase cool grey as applied to San Francisco refers to the frequent fogs from the Pacific Ocean that envelop the city.

Cadet gray[link]

Cadet Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#91A3B0
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(145, 163, 176)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(205°, 18%, 69[17]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cadet gray is a slightly bluish shade of the color gray. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912.^[21]

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).^[22]

Blue-gray[link]

Blue-Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#6699CC
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(102, 153, 204)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(210°, 50%, 80[23]%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Glaucous[link]

Glaucous
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#6082B6
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(96, 130, 182)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(216°, 47%, 71%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
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[link]

Slate Gray
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#708090
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(112, 128, 144)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(210°, 22%, 56%)
Source		X11
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.^[24]

Warm grays[link]

Warm grays are colors that are noticeably brownish or pinkish 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[link]

Puce is the color of the belly of a flea. Puce is the French word for flea.

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

Mountbatten pink[link]

Mountbatten pink, also called Plymouth pink,^[25] is a naval camouflage color, a grayish tone of mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

Rose quartz[link]

Rose Quartz
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#AA98A9
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(170, 152, 169)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(330°, 12%, 50%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
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.^[26]

Cinereous[link]

Cinereous is a color, meaning 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.^[27]

Taupe[link]

Taupe
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#483C32
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(72, 60, 50)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(30°, 17%, 34%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
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 (exact year is not known).^[28]

See also[link]

• Davy's gray
• Grisaille
• Payne's gray

References[link]

Henry Cavill
Cavill at a Vanity Fair party at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 2009
Born	Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill (1983-05-05) 5 May 1983 (age 29) Jersey, Channel Islands
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001 – present

Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill (born 5 May 1983) is a British actor. He has appeared in the films The Count of Monte Cristo and Stardust, and played the role of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, on the Showtime series The Tudors, from 2007 until 2010. He has been cast as Superman in the 2013 film Man of Steel.

Early life[link]

Cavill was born on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, the fourth of five boys. His mother, Marianne, works as a secretary in a bank, and his father, Colin, is a stockbroker.^[1] He was educated at St. Michael's Preparatory School in Saint Saviour, Jersey before attending Stowe School,^[2] a boarding school in Buckinghamshire, England. He began acting in school plays during prep school,^[3] and has said that if he had not become an actor, he would have joined the army^[2] or gone to university to study ancient history, specifically Egyptology.^[3][4]

Career[link]

Cavill had his first film role in Kevin Reynolds' 2002 adaptation The Count of Monte Cristo. He went on to star in Laguna (2001), and afterwards appeared in BBC’s The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002), the TV film Goodbye Mr. Chips (2002), and the TV series Midsomer Murders (2003). In 2003 he had a supporting role in I Capture the Castle, followed by Red Riding Hood (2004), Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005), and Tristan & Isolde (2006). He had a minor role alongside Sienna Miller and Ben Barnes in Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of Stardust (2007).

From 2007 to 2010, Cavill had a leading role in Showtime's television series The Tudors as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. The series was well-received: it was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2007 and won an Emmy in 2008. Cavill credits the show with bolstering his career: "It’s done the most for me to date. [ . . . ] Now that there's an audience somewhere in America that’s aware of who I am, I have more sell-ability, because of The Tudors."^[5] Entertainment Weekly named him the "Most Dashing Duke" and praised his work on The Tudors for displaying "charm, depth and a killer bod".^[6]

Cavill had been set to star as Superman in director McG’s 2004 film Superman: Flyby. However, McG pulled out of the project and direction was taken over by director Bryan Singer, who recast Brandon Routh as the lead.^[7][8] Cavill was also the cause of a write-in effort from fans to see him cast as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).^[9] The role eventually went to Robert Pattinson. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, was outspokenly in favor of Cavill playing the character of Edward Cullen in the Twilight film,^[10] calling him her "perfect Edward".^[11] By the time production of the film began, however, Cavill was too old to play the character,^[11][12] and again the role went to Robert Pattinson. In 2005, Cavill was a final contender for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale.^[13] The producers and director Martin Campbell were torn between him and Daniel Craig; reportedly Campbell supported Cavill but the producers preferred an older Bond.^[7][14] Ultimately Craig landed the role. In their December 2005 issue, Empire magazine dubbed Cavill the "Unluckiest Man in Hollywood" for this series of near-misses.^[2] Despite reports that he was a contender for Batman in Batman Begins, Cavill confirmed that he never auditioned for nor was offered the role.^[7][13]

In early 2008, Cavill became a model/spokesperson for Dunhill fragrances.^[15] The television ad featured a suited-up Cavill walking through the Union Jack flag, before mounting a helicopter.^[16] A second television ad featured Cavill driving a car through a deserted London at night, and meeting with a young woman.^[17] He starred in director Joel Schumacher's horror film Blood Creek (2008) and in 2009 he had a minor role in Woody Allen’s comedy film Whatever Works.

Cavill played the lead role of Theseus in Tarsem Singh's mythological, big-budget special effects film Immortals, released November 11, 2011.^[18] In 2012, Cavill will star alongside Bruce Willis in The Cold Light of Day. On January 30, 2011, it was announced that Cavill had been cast in the role of Clark Kent/Superman in director Zack Snyder's Man of Steel.^[19] Snyder called Cavill "the perfect choice to don the cape and S shield."^[20][21] Entertainment media applauded Henry Cavill on his road to success.^[22][23]

Personal life[link]

On 4 May 2011, his girlfriend, showjumper Ellen Whitaker, announced their engagement.^[24][25][26]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Henry Cavill at the Internet Movie Database

Alexis Bledel
Bledel at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Kimberly Alexis Bledel (1981-09-16) September 16, 1981 (age 30) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1996–present

Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls and Lena Kaligaris in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Early life[link]

Bledel was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Nanette (née Dozier) and Martin Bledel. Her father is from Argentina, and has Danish ancestry.^[1][2] Her mother had been raised in Mexico from a young age.^[3][4] Of her parents' upbringing in Latin America, Bledel has stated "It's the only culture my mom knows from life, and my father as well, and they made the decision to raise their children within the context they had been raised in".^[3] Bledel was raised in a Spanish-speaking household, and did not learn English until she began school.^[5] She has a younger brother, Eric.

Bledel attended Catholic St. Agnes Academy in Houston, as well as Baptist and Lutheran schools.^[6] Her mother encouraged her to try community theater to overcome her shyness.^[7] As a child, Bledel appeared in local productions of Our Town and The Wizard of Oz.^{[citation needed]} She was scouted at a local shopping mall and given work as a fashion model. She went to Page Parkes Center for Modeling and Acting and attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for one year.^[8]

Career[link]

Bledel made her television debut co-starring in The WB series Gilmore Girls in 2000. She portrayed Rory Gilmore, the daughter of single mother Lorelai Gilmore. Initially, Rory was a high school student at an exclusive private academy, living with her mother in a small town in Connecticut, but later moved on to college at Yale University, where she, among other things, worked as the editor of the Yale Daily News. Bledel made her film debut in Tuck Everlasting, released in 2002, though she had worked as an extra in the 1998 film Rushmore.^[9] In 2005, she starred in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants based on the book by Ann Brashares. She played Lena Kaligaris, an artist on a journey with three friends, linked over the summer by a pair of "magical" jeans.

In 2005 Bledel portrayed Becky, a prostitute, in the movie Sin City. "She's a very professional prostitute. She carries a gun and she kicks ass," said Bledel of Becky.^[10]

In 2006 Bledel co-starred in I'm Reed Fish, in the role of Reed Fish's fiance. Bledel reprised her role of Lena Kaligaris from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in the film's sequel, released in August 2008. Bledel next appeared in Post Grad, which opened on August 21, 2009, alongside Jane Lynch, Michael Keaton, and Carol Burnett.

Bledel in June 2008

Bledel appeared opposite Scott Porter in the film The Good Guy, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival April 26, 2009. "The Good Guy" (Porter's role) is a Wall Street businessman whose life falls apart when he helps out a new salesman. Bledel played Beth, Porter's girlfriend. She was also a guest star on the two-hour series finale of ER, playing new intern Dr. Julia Wise.^[11]

In May 2009 Bledel signed a contract with the modeling division of IMG.^[8]

Bledel appeared in the historical drama The Conspirator directed by Robert Redford. She plays the girlfriend of Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy), the lawyer who defended Mary Surratt, the first woman to be hanged in the United States, played by Robin Wright. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on 15 April 2011.^[12]

Also in 2010, Bledel completed work as the lead actress in the independent Canadian film The Kate Logan Affair. The film was presented at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2010.^[13][14]

Bledel performed in a theatre production by the Manhattan Theatre Club called Regrets, staged at the New York City Center.^[15]

Personal life[link]

Bledel dated her Gilmore Girls co-star Milo Ventimiglia from December 2002 to July 2006.^[16]

Filmography[link]

Awards and other recognitions[link]

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Nominations[link]

• 2002: Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Supporting Young Actress for Gilmore Girls
• 2003: Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Tuck Everlasting
• 2004: Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Comedy for Gilmore Girls
• 2006: NCLR ALMA Award

Awards[link]

• 2001: Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Leading Young Actress, for Gilmore Girls
• 2002: Family Television Award for Actress, for Gilmore Girls
• 2005: Teen Choice Award for Choice It Girl
• 2005: Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Comedy, for Gilmore Girls
• 2006: Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress Comedy, for Gilmore Girls

Other recognitions[link]

• In 2002 Bledel was voted one of Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25".
• She was ranked #87 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2005.^[20]
• In 2010 Bledel was named one of Us Magazine's "25 Most Stylish New Yorkers".^[21]

References[link]