We went with Striata Gunmetal from Boral. When we saw them on site they were a Greyish colour and in contrast to our selection photos they appeared much lighter than what we thought. Thought our tiles were more of a Monument darkness. Builder let us go back to the selections studio with a broken tile from the site and whalla matched to their tile swatch
Flick through a few more selections photos we had last night and the tile looks two diff colours depending on the light so we conceded it was in fact correct. Like you said cakey, add some rain and they will look dark anyway But yeah like yours were also covered in dust and could see chips or imperfections from the small sample we dug out from the shrink wrapping.
on the Bricking Cakey