Glass articles, natively colored glass housings, and methods of making the same

A method of making a housing for a consumer electronic device comprising:

• melting precursor materials together to form a glass article,
• wherein the glass article comprises a silicate glass with a multi-valent colorant having a reduced form and an oxidized form, the precursor materials comprising the multi-valent colorant, the multi-valent colorant is a metal selected from a group consisting of cerium, titanium, cobalt, copper, nickel, vanadium, chromium, and combinations thereof, a precursor molar ratio of the oxidized form of the multi-valent colorant in the precursor materials to a total of the oxidized form and the reduced form of the multi-valent colorant in the precursor materials is different than a molar ratio of the oxidized form of the multi-valent colorant in the glass article to the total of the oxidized form and the reduced form of the multi-valent colorant in the glass article.

A natively colored glass housing for a consumer electronic device, the natively colored glass housing comprising a glass article comprising a thickness defined between a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, the thickness is from 200 μm to 5 mm, wherein the glass article comprises a silicate glass with a multi-valent colorant having a reduced form and an oxidized form, a molar ratio of the reduced form of the multi-valent colorant to a total of the reduced form and the oxidized form is from 0.3 to 0.9, and a total transmittance of at least one 10 nm band within a wavelength range of 380 nm to 750 nm through the thickness is from 3% to 80%.