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gainsboro en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a neutral light grey colour.

wikipedia: X11 color

gainsboro en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A neutral light grey colour.
    • By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information. 2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Usenet):
    • 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. 2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11:

wikipedia: X11 color