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13	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahn_gyeon_early_summer.jpg]]
14	[[caption-width-right:350:♫ [[Music/TheGratefulDead With a touch of gray…]] ♫\
15	[-"Early Summer", An Gyeon-]]]
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20	->''"She could change everything about her\
21	Using colors bold and bright\
22	But all the colors mix together\
23	To grey\
24	And it breaks her heart"''
25	-->--'''Music/DaveMatthewsBand''', "Grey Street"
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27	[[gray:Gray]] or "[[InconsistentSpelling grey]]" is the one commonly-recognized color that is most desaturated -- in its plainest form, it doesn't go anywhere on a color wheel. It stands in the middle. Gray can thus personify boredom, depression or emotional numbness. However, gray is also associated with fairness and neutrality, never giving you too much or too little. In moral symbolism, [[GreyAndGrayMorality gray also represents moral complexity, where nothing is quite clearly good or bad]], [[BlueAndOrangeMorality or a middle point to bizzare forms of morality]], but shades of both. Gray can also be a beautiful color in its own right, especially celebrated as the color of silver and the hue of mist.
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29	Technically, black and white are both shades of gray, but they are more commonly considered colors in their own right. The colors most commonly associated as gray (for example, silver) include most of the shades lighter than black and darker than white. Gray can also be a middle point between complementary colors such as [[RedGreenContrast red and green]], [[OrangeBlueContrast orange and blue]], and [[YellowPurpleContrast yellow and violet/purple]]; mixing with these combinations of equal amount can lead to chromatic grays in contrast to mixing black and white.
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31	See also ShadesOfConflict.
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33	[[index]]
34	!!Categories:
35	+ BlackIndexWhiteIndex
36	+ TropesInBlack
37	+ TropesInWhite
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39	!!Tropes
40	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: A purposely limited color palette.
41	** AlternateMonochromeVersion: An official alternate version of a work that already exists in color, but rendered in monochrome for stylistic/artistic purposes.
42	** MonochromeToColor: When color is restored to a monochromatic setting.
43	** OldTimeyCinemaCountdown: An old-fashioned monochrome countdown before movies.
44	* FirstGrayHair: When a character finds a grey hair in their otherwise non-grey hair, they freak out about getting old.
45	* GrayIsUseless: Unusable items are colored gray.
46	** DeathIsGray: A dead or powerless thing turns gray.
47	** NoPowerNoColor: When something loses power, it goes monochrome.
48	* GrayRainOfDepression: The combination of depression or sadness and rain to often used to exaggerate one's mood.
49	* GrayscaleOfEvil: When someone or something's that devoid of color is depicted as evil.
50	* GreyAndGrayMorality: When opposing sides are neither completely "good" nor completely "evil".
51	** ALighterShadeOfGrey: When an AntiHero is more heroic than an AntiVillain.
52	* GloomyGray: Gray used to signify sadness.
53	* IcyGreyEyes: A person has eyes that are grey in color.
54	* GreyGoo: Nanobots and other mechanical substances which are usually grey in color.
55	[[/index]]

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