A deep gray colored glass comprising 100 parts by weight of matrix components and coloring components consisting essentially of: from 0.8 to 1.4 parts by weight of total iron calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, at most 0.21 part by weight of FeO, from 0.05 to 1.0 part by weight of TiO.sub.2, from 0.0005 to 0.015 part by weight of Se and from 0.02 to 0.05 part by weight of CoO, wherein the matrix components comprise from 65 to 75 wt % of SiO.sub.2, from 0.1 to 5.0 wt % of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 10 to 18 wt % of Na.sub.2 O+K.sub.2 O, from 5 to 15 wt % of CaO, from 1 to 6 wt % of MgO and from 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of SO.sub.3.