gainsboro

English

Etymology

A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989.[1] Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples",[2] of which gainsboro appears to be one.

Noun

gainsboro (uncountable)

  1. A neutral light grey colour.
    gainsboro:  
    • 2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica‎ (Usenet):
      By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.
    • 2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11:
      When the temperature reached to[sic] about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the […] film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.

Adjective

gainsboro (not comparable)

  1. Of a neutral light grey colour.

See also
  • Appendix:Colors

References
  1. "jim" (1989 October 26) “testing new tuned version from Paul Raveling”, in X11‎, archived from the original on 2020-05-13
  2. "jim", Paul Raveling (1989 November 1) “xc/programs/rgb/others/README”, in X11‎, archived from the original on 14 December 2021

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