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Codex Grey

Parchment pages, worn smooth as stone, from a library before printers.

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Codex Grey is a light grey.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Codex Grey

Codex

The codex was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format, of a stack of pages bound at one edge. However, the term codex is usually reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum, parchment, or papyrus, rather than paper.

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Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

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codex

Noun

  1. An early manuscript book, especially one bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
  2. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
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grey

Adjective

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
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