Zinc gray (#655B55) is a deep neutral shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Dobri Dobrev, Gustaf Lundberg, and Antonio Carneiro and the Realism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Raisin black (#242124), Khaki (#C3B091), and Spanish gray (#989898). The combination forms a grounded, archival chord, pairs with restrained, near-neutral companions that let the source carry the chord, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
