{"id":21269,"date":"2018-04-17T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:04:50","slug":"mapping-apples-vast-universe-of-space-gray-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/mapping-apples-vast-universe-of-space-gray-shades\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Apple&rsquo;s Vast Universe of Space Gray Shades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/16\/space-gray-odyssey\/\">Michael Steeber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/16\/space-gray-odyssey\/\"><p>Silver aluminum, once the defining look of Apple products, has been met with increasing variety over the last several years by a range of colors and finishes that customers can choose from. One of the earliest and most popular options &#x2013; space gray &#x2013; has permeated across almost every product line Apple offers.<\/p><p>Yet, ubiquity has not brought consistency. Each new generation of a product seems to bring with it a slightly different take on space gray. Those with large device collections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkville.com\/the-many-shades-of-apples-space-gray\/\">have<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mantia\/status\/947246392103223297\">noted<\/a> the discrepancies between shades, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/3kidlx\/apple_need_to_sort_out_what_they_mean_by_space\/\">discussions brew<\/a> online over the term&rsquo;s exact definition.<\/p><p>While subtle variations in material, texture, lighting, and even the shape of a product can play tricks on the eyes, every device Apple currently offers or has produced in space gray can be grouped into one of several loosely defined categories. Below, we&rsquo;ve cataloged and categorized the vast universe of Apple&rsquo;s recent dark material finishes in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of space gray.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steeber: Silver aluminum, once the defining look of Apple products, has been met with increasing variety over the last several years by a range of colors and finishes that customers can choose from. One of the earliest and most popular options &#x2013; space gray &#x2013; has permeated across almost every product line Apple offers.Yet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-17T19:04:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"dd8aa6f0-b1a3-484f-8ba1-99abd1a70960","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-17T19:04:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3Yqm8LGjSE-LoZmr0acJYA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[77,452,31,145,85,792,30,1155],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-design","tag-hardware","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-mac","tag-macbook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21270,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions\/21270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}