Slate
- HEX
- #708090
- RGB
- 112 128 144
- HSL
- 210° 13% 50%
- CMYK
- 22 11 0 44
Slate or Charcoal?
A mid grey with a blue tint, lighter than charcoal.
After slate rock, split into roof tiles.
Science
Slate is mudstone squeezed by heat and pressure until it splits into thin, flat sheets, perfect for roofs. Schoolchildren once wrote on handheld slates and wiped them clean, which is where a clean slate comes from.
Kin
- Charcoal: Two greys named after things you could write or draw with
- Gunmetal: Another grey named after a hard material
In paintings
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
- Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet
- The Japanese Footbridge, Claude Monet
- The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich
- Water Lilies, Claude Monet
- Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet
Sources
- Britannica, 'Slate'
- Etymonline, 'slate'
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