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Color:
Granite gray


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Colors with the same hue:
Black
Pitch
Pitch Black
Soot Black
Deep Space Black
Phantom Black
Eerie black
Tar
Iron Black
Coal Black
Coal
Asphalt Gray
Jet
Hematite
Tungsten
Smalt 
Philippine blue
Royal azure
Soot
Egyptian blue
Similar colors:
Dim gray
Cinder Gray
Sonic silver
Dolphin
Davy's grey
Zinc
Urban Gray
Gray 
Neon gray
Trolley grey
Faded Black
Space Gray
Smoky
Philippine gray
Iron Gray
Stormy Gray
Weathered Gray
Muted Gray
Words evoked by this color:
countertop,  monumental,  stone,  stones,  sarcophagus,  pierre,  sculpted,  dower,  culver,  knot,  tunisian,  pyramidal,  alexandria,  minaret,  sphinx,  nick,  foss,  ailanthus,  machining,  steely,  towering,  ebenezer,  tempered,  sheathed,  stiffened,  stiffer,  refinery,  rigid,  blackwood,  swarthy,  annealed,  clenched,  tightened,  tighten,  tightening,  titanic,  phalanx,  steele,  armour,  riveted,  metallurgy,  high-rise,  structural,  material,  erecting,  metropolis,  materials,  equipping,  tirelessly,  invulnerable
Literary analysis:
Literary works often employ granite gray as a potent symbol of rugged neutrality and enduring strength. In one passage, the color is used to describe the icy landscape—jagged ice relieved by a steadfast granite gray—imbuing the scene with a sense of austere resilience [1]. Similarly, a ship is transformed by being painted granite gray, suggesting a blend of industrial effort and timeless natural hue [2]. In another instance, granite gray serves as a neutral backdrop upon which brighter colors gleam, highlighting its role in balancing and enhancing the vivid elements of a setting [3]. These varied uses underscore granite gray’s capacity to evoke both the stark beauty of the natural world and the subtle interplay between light and shadow in human environments.
  1. Who knows what goadings in their sterner way O'er jagged ice, relieved by granite gray, Blew round the men of Massachusetts Bay?
    — from Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
  2. Even before it was in place other men were swarming over the ship with paint machines, coloring it a granite gray.
    — from Loot of the Void by Edwin K. Sloat
  3. The walls, too, are dashed with bits of bright color that gleam out on the neutral granite gray.
    — from The Mountains of California by John Muir

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