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| Character | Strong, direct, unapologetically structural. | Practical, weatherproof, and honest. | Warm, generous, and alive to the touch. | Soft, ductile, and never quite finished changing. |
| How it looks | Matt grey raw; most often blackened, painted or powder-coated. | Grey with a crystalline, spangled zinc surface that dulls to an even matt grey outdoors. | Ranges from a bright polished yellow through brushed and satin to deep antique and near-black. | Bright pink-orange when new, moving through browns to deep near-black, or driven deliberately to green and blue verdigris. |
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| Outdoors | Used externally throughout, always with a coating system appropriate to the exposure. | Made for outdoor use: the zinc coat protects the steel beneath. | Suitable externally where a living, weathering surface is intended, or with a protective coating where it is not. | One of the classic exterior metals. |
| Finishes | 3: brushed & satin, special texture, distressed | 1: brushed & satin | 16: mirror, hairline, brushed & satin, vibration, hammered, hand-beaten, embossed, etched… | 11: mirror, brushed & satin, hammered, hand-beaten, embossed, special texture, special effects, antique… |
| In short | The metal behind the metal. | Mild steel with a coat of zinc. | The metal most often asked for by name. | The most workable metal on the floor and the most unpredictable in service — which is exactly why it is used where character matters more than uniformity. |
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