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

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).

Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 26 October 1969 in London, UK) is a British dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. She is known for her participation as lead vocalist for the group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers.

Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the British production music/film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw.

At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, who at the time were known as A.S.K. It was through this meeting that they would form a dance act called Opus III. Their first single, a cover version of the song "It's a Fine Day" from their debut album Mind Fruit was an international success and Top 10 hit on UK Singles Chart, and reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1992. A reversed sample of Hawkshaw's singing from this track was used in the Orbital track "Halcyon," the music video for which featured Hawkshaw. Opus III also had another US #1 hit on the same chart in 1994 with "When You Made The Mountain", from their second and final album, Guru Mother.

Henriette Mantel (born c. 1958) is an Emmy Award-winning American writer, actress, producer, director, and stand-up comic from Vermont.

She was born and raised in Newfane, Vermont on her family's farm.

In the late 1970s, she spent two years in Washington, D.C., working with Ralph Nader at his Center for the Study of Responsive Law. Twenty years later, she co-wrote and directed An Unreasonable Man with her friend Steve Skrovan. The movie was a hit at Sundance and was on the "short list" for the Academy Awards.

She has worked in documentary and reality television as a writer/producer on such shows as the Emmy Award winning The Osbournes and Michael Moore's The Awful Truth. She won her first Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein's Money. Most recently, she was a consultant for HBO's The Comeback and co-authored the book Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood with Teri Garr. As an actress, Henriette has appeared in many feature films and television comedies. She appeared in The Brady Bunch films as Alice the maid. She also appeared in an episode of Friends as nurse #2 in the eighth season; episode 23: The One Where Rachel Has a Baby. She played Shelley Long's lovable nanny in the second season of the CBS sitcom Good Advice.

Kevin Gerard Meaney (born April 23, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has been involved in a number of television programs, having been featured on Ned & Stacey, Dr. Katz, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Garfield and Friends, Rocko's Modern Life, London Underground, and Duckman, among others. He starred as the title character on the short-lived sitcom version of Uncle Buck. His most famous catchphrase is, "That's not right!" part of an impression of his mother, which is followed by, and usually preceded by, her complaints and remonstrations. Typically, his acts consist of commentary about his family and complaints about hotel service.

Meaney is also an accomplished singer and has written and produced songs for HBO and Comedy Central with his co-writer Martin Olson, with whom he has written several television series. Meaney appeared in the Broadway show Hairspray. He intermittently appears on "The Jay Thomas Show" as a co-host.

On XM Radio's Stand Up Sit Down on May 5, 2008, Meaney told the host he was getting divorced after coming out of the closet.