Tanker is a very dark gray, but having looked at other folks pictures, tanker gray with black handles may well be the most popular combo, but it also works with the other handle colors -- it'll grow on you. Not that it matters right now, but for future reference, urban gray is a lighter blade coating, approximating the color of cinder blocks or concrete, and sage is a grayish brown (I always think it should be green, but it's not).