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Shale Gray 16KT001

Shale Gray - 16KT001

Photo: ©ktCOLOR. Text: Katrin Trautwein, 225 Farben, 2017 ©Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel.

Quiet Backgrounds: How ktCOLOR's Gray Shades Highlight Your Designs

Mid-range grays create muted, shadowed backgrounds that heighten the appeal of brighter and more colorful objects in their vicinity. The natural gray shades from ktCOLOR do more than this: made from premium natural pigments, they offer a richness and texture that synthetic grays from standard mixing machines simply cannot match. The elegant, timeless and velvety ktCOLOR grays are perfect for creating subtle, stylish, and understated backgrounds.

Firm and unimposing, a color beloved since ancient times.

Shale has its origins in clay that has been pressed together by mountain massifs to produce hard stones. The pigment is produced by grinding leftover pieces that accumulate during the manufacture of shale used for roofing. Adulterations of the gray pigment, wrote Wulf, are “uncommon due to its low price.” This is no longer true: shale is expensive to process, and the pigment has become rare. This color contains both shale and ultramarine ash, a bluish byproduct of lapis lazuli production. They are responsible for the sense of spatial depth conveyed by this elegant gray.
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