Take a Silver iPhone and you'll get a white-grayish rear glass panel and a silverish stainless steel frame around the outside of your handset. Going the other way and choosing Space Gray gets you a dark-grayish rear glass with a much darker metallic stainless steel band running around the outside.
Though Space Gray is not pure black, it's the closest thing to it here. It's also the newer of Apple's two available color choices for the MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, Silver is the closest thing to an iconic Apple color. It's the hue also found on many iPads and iPhones over the years.
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Space gray changed wavelengths in June 2017 when the HomePod was announced. The smart speaker is Apple's first product to use a fabric interpretation of space gray. While HomePod's announcement came prior to fall's iPhone lineup, its color isn't derivative of any products preceding it, so we'll call it space gray 4.
The MacBook Air with M1 is a speedy and ultra-light laptop available in three different colors: space gray, silver, and gold. Since there's no difference in price between any of the colors, which one you pick will ultimately come down to personal preference. Some people like the standard Apple silver.
Apple brand hex, RGB, CMYK and Pantone (PMS) color codes
Apple Gray | |
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Hex code | #A2AAAD |
RGB values | (162, 170, 173) |
CMYK values | (35, 23, 19, 2) |
Pantone® | 429 |
Following the discontinuation of the iMac Pro, Apple also appears to be discontinuing Space Gray "Magic" accessories that it sold separately alongside the iMac Pro. The iMac Pro was the only Space Gray Mac, and Apple designed special matching accessories for it.
Midnight is Apple's new space gray-like color. Like starlight, it's available on the Apple Watch Series 7Apple Watch Series 7Nike versions of the Apple Watch Series 7 come in midnight and starlight as well. Space gray and silver are still offered in Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple Watch SE. Simply put, midnight may be your best choice if you prefer the darker option while starlight is the most comparable lighter option. and iPhone 13. Apple has opted to continue offering the iPad mini in space gray for its dark color. Apple also offers several midnight accessories, like a sport band and solo loop.
The names may be "silver" and "space gray" but they're both just different shades of aluminum. Black is traditionally the most common and popular color for electronics. Space gray isn't quite "true black" but it's more in line with what folks are used to seeing their electronics look like.
If we add up all the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them), and from all the clouds of gas and dust in the Universe, we'd end up with a colour very close to white, but actually a little bit 'beige'.
Apple originally claimed that they only ever be sold with this Mac, but seemingly demand changed that. Four months after launch, in March 2018, the Space Gray Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Trackpad were put on sale separately. The iMac Pro was then discontinued in March 2021.
Apple announced in mid-May 2021 that it would no longer produce the Space Gray accessories, but they did remain on sale "while supplies last." Now, however, they have been erased from the online Apple Store, as has the iMac Pro they were originally designed for.
That being said, it does show fingerprints, but it doesn't look as "dirty" as my past MBPs would look. Kind of like a white vs black care; tar and dirt will show on the white, but dust and paints swirls will show on the black.
That being said, it does show fingerprints, but it doesn't look as "dirty" as my past MBPs would look. Kind of like a white vs black care; tar and dirt will show on the white, but dust and paints swirls will show on the black.