I am a scrappy girl so I love gray and all colors in between. There are some colors I don't like as well as others, but I still love them in a truly scrappy quilt. That said, I am not wild about that quilt either. That gray is sort of blaaah, but there ae a lot ofcolos like that Good for some things, not or others I am working on a scrappy Ocean Waves right now - it has upwards of 3,000 hst and I just love it. It's Bonnie Hunters pattern and I am crazy for the movement in these blocks - black is my constant and it does a great job of showing off the different fabrics used. A dark grey could have been used in mine, but put that med tone grey and everything would have been drug down (my opinion). That might be a good color for really brights? I'm not a fan of the OMG colors.