Gainsboro

Gainsboro is the very light gray named after a town in Lincolnshire, England, by way of the eighteenth-century painter Thomas Gainsborough. The CSS hex is a quiet, balanced gray with no obvious cool or warm cast, which makes it a useful neutral for borders, dividers, and disabled-state surfaces in interface design. Against white it provides just enough separation to read as a distinct layer without competing for attention. Body text on Gainsboro surfaces should use a deep charcoal or near-black to maintain legible contrast at all sizes.