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[pensnest]

Does anyone else think that gray and grey are different colours?

*is weird*

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[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

I thought it was just a difference between the American and English spelling?

Know what drives me nuts?

Dorian Gray, an English character by all means, has it spelt the American way.

And Jean Grey (the XMen) has it spelt the English way. Drives me INSANE in the membrane.

[pensnest]

Now, for me, gray=pinkish grey. Thus, a person might have grey hair, but if he were in shock, he'd be gray-faced.

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

No

[pensnest]

:-p

[beckyo.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that gray is a color, and grey is a colour.

;)

[pensnest]

Neat!

[solariana.livejournal.com]

Same color/colour, different spellings: English & American ;)

[pensnest]

No, no, you see, gray is a pinkish version of grey. They just are. I know best.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

Not really in the real world, but: In my head, when I think of the words, I see gray as being a little yellower, mousier (say, #d6d5d1 in hex), and grey as being a little bluer, a little slatier (#c8cace).

Huh. Apparently I'm weird, too. Not that it's news.

[pensnest]

*embraces you*

See, you get it. Mind you, for me, 'gray' is a slightly pink-ish shade of 'grey'. I've closed Photoshop for the night, or I'd look up the colours you cite.

Let us rejoice in our weirdness and superiority.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

*g* Indeed. A toast! *clinks glasses with you*

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

In my head, grey is more silver than gray. I never think of them as British and American, only as two different moods of the same color.

[dine.livejournal.com]

yes, this! gray is a bit warmer feeling, and grey is silvery and cooler

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[pensnest]

Yes! You guys get it. Good.

[musicboxgirl.livejournal.com]

No I don't see them as being different colors but I prefer the British spelling even though I'm American.

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

lol

I second that. *g*

[pensnest]

I must admit, I think it looks better with an 'e'. But I just can't interpret them as identical colours.

[sidra]

I think gray is a little lighter - and has more color than grey - which is more purely black/white and slightly darker

*is also weird*

[pensnest]

Splendid! I quite agree. Well, grey can be most shades, but is definitely black+white, whereas gray has, to my mind, a touch of pinkness to it.

[adelate]

Not until you mentioned it, but now I got to thinking about it and I kinda do have this feeling like grey would be a little more blue than gray.

[pensnest]

I mean, yellow doesn't look like itself, one way or another, but grey/gray? Conveys something.

*continues to be weird*

[adelate]

Now, see, Lance's shirt there in your icon is kind of grey, whereas Josh's icon for example would be more gray. I don't even know!

[pensnest]

Interesting - for me, Lance's shirt is a greyish blue, and Ninjetti's icon is grey. But there are bits of gray in the icon I'm using for this comment...

geek alert.

[milosflaca.livejournal.com]

well, I was told that Grey was the spelling for the surname and Gray was the one for the color.

also, you might want to know that the "Grey" word is used in the prismacolor brand (and in general in many art products).
the pencils are marked with "100% grey" "20% grey" "Cool Grey" and so on. They never use Gray. That's the first time I noticed something wrong with those two words.

ETA: I read a comment a few lines above about the Grey containing white + black . Now that I think of it, yes. Grey is a mixture of white and black and it depends on the percentage of black the grey you will have on your hands.

I've been using shades of grey for my entire life and I never thought about this detail. But Syd is right. That's the reason why those are two different colors.
although I don't think desaturated grey is labeled gray. maybe it's labeled mist gray or something like that, but never gray, because if it is, it has a percentage number right beside the grey word.

Now I'll shut up.

Re: geek alert.

[pensnest]

I know that 'grey' is British English and 'gray' is American, but why that change happened is anybody's guess. Interestng that the art world uses 'grey', which to me is a monochrome tint. I just have a 'thing', I interpret 'gray' to be a more pink-tinged version of 'grey', which is straightforwardly black/white, or silvery. Like this icon. I just wondered if other people interpret the colour slightly differently when it's spelled differently.