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)
- 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)
- Of a neutral light grey colour.
See also
- Appendix:Colors
References
- "jim" (1989-10-26), “testing new tuned version from Paul Raveling”, in X11, archived from the original on 2020-05-13
- "jim", Paul Raveling (1989-11-01), “xc/programs/rgb/others/README”, in X11, archived from the original on 2021-12-14, retrieved 14 December 2021
Anagrams
- aborgoins, bigaroons, bioorgans