Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate. As a tertiary color, slate (sometimes called olive) is an equal mix of purple and green pigments.
The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.
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“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)