Slate gray is a
gray
Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed ...
color with a slight
azure
Azure may refer to:
Colour
* Azure (color), a hue of blue
** Azure (heraldry)
** Shades of azure, shades and variations
Arts and media
* ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987
* Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013
...
tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material
slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic ro ...
. As a
tertiary color
A tertiary color or intermediate color is a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color, in a given color space such as RGB, CMYK (more modern) or RYB ...
, slate is an equal mix of purple and green pigments.
Slaty, referring to this color, is often used to describe birds.
The first recorded use of ''slate gray'' as a color name in English was in 1705.
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Variations
Light slate gray
Displayed at right is the web color light slate gray.
Dark slate gray
Displayed at right is the web color dark slate gray.
In human culture
Computers

* The exterior shells of
supercomputers are often colored various shades of slate gray.
* The
iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the 6th
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the sma ...
and the
iPad Mini comes in a Dark slate gray colored aluminum body contrasted with black.
* Western Electric used the term SLATE for the color instead of gray in their 25-pair (and multiples) cable for pairs 5-10-15-20-25.
Transportation

* The
S New York City Subway service bullet, used in three out of the system's services, is colored slate gray.
See also
*
List of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (compact)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
* List of RAL colors
* List ...
References
Tertiary colors
Shades of gray
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