Dark Grey Mauve

Shades of gray

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.

Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

Darkness

Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.

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.

dark

Adjective

1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
2. Extinguished.

Noun

1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
2. Ignorance.

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.

mauve

Noun

1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

1. Having a pale purple colour.