Chapters: Grey, Taupe, Silver, Sable, Isabelline, Slate Gray, Glaucous, Cinereous, Cool Grey, Bistre, Liver, Battleship Grey, Ash Grey, Arsenic, Platinum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Grey (sometimes spelled gray in parts of the U.S. - see spelling differences) describes the colors ranging from black to white. These, including white and black, are known as achromatic colors or neutral colors. These "new" neutrals have low colorfulness and/or chroma on the color wheel. Greys are seen commonly in nature and fashion. Grey paints are created by mixing complementary colors (that is colors directly opposite on the color wheel, e.g. yellow and violet). In the RGB color model used by computer displays, it is created by mixing equal amounts of red, green, and blue light. Images which consist wholly of neutral colors are called monochrome, black-and-white or greyscale. The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in AD 700. Most grey pigments have a cool or warm cast to them, as the human eye can detect even a minute amount of saturation. Yellow, orange, and red create a "warm grey." Green, blue, and violet create a "cool grey." When there is no cast at all, it is referred to as "neutral grey," "achromatic grey" or simply "grey." Two colors are called complementary colors if grey is produced when they are combined. Grey is its own complement. Consequently, grey remains grey when its color spectrum is inverted, and so has no opposite, or alternately is its own opposite. Artists sometimes use the two different spellings to distinguish between strict combinations of black and white versus combinations that have elements of hue. There are several tones of grey available for use with HTML and CSS in word form, while there are ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=73189