Analytical Gray

Analytical Gray is a warm greige with a green undertone that, unlike many greiges, actually shows. Kylie M Interiors describes the green as noticeable but not remotely overwhelming, and counts it among her favorite greiges 'because it really commits to its job'. Home Like You Mean It is plainer: 'Analytical Gray is a gray with green undertones.'

At an LRV of around 47 it sits in the light-medium range, and that depth is what you have to plan around. Home Like You Mean It warns that 'in a room with very little light (natural or artificial) Analytical Gray is going to come across as very, very dark'. Thrifty Decor Chick, who painted her open-plan main floor in it, called it 'a LOVELY neutral color, beige mixed with just the right amount of gray'.

In warm light its beige side comes forward and it reads as a soft stone; in cool light the green and gray are more visible.

Analytical Gray is a wall color, reviewed and used as a family-room and living-room color where there is enough light to carry its depth. Sherwin-Williams lists it for both interior and exterior use.

It is not a trim color. Beside it the trim should be a warm off-white: Paint Color Consultants suggests Alabaster SW 7008 or Shoji White SW 7042.

On cabinets it is possible — it has the depth cabinets need — but no reviewer we found has used it that way, so treat that as unverified.

Sherwin-Williams' coordinating colors for Analytical Gray are Nuance SW 7049, Useful Gray SW 7050 and Silken Peacock SW 9059. Reviewers add warmth: Home Like You Mean It finds that 'when paired with warmer tones like off white, brown and warm woods, Analytical Gray looks simply amazing', and warns against a blue-undertoned sofa or blue-veined marble, which fight its green.

Paint Color Consultants suggests Urbane Bronze SW 7048 as an accent and Oyster Bay SW 6206 or Sea Salt SW 6204 for a green-gray contrast.

Its relatives are Agreeable Gray SW 7029, which is considerably lighter; Worldly Gray SW 7043 and Anew Gray SW 7030, which Kylie M suggests comparing it with; Amazing Gray SW 7044; and Jogging Path SW 7638, which Kylie M says commits to more green than Amazing Gray.

It fails in dim rooms. Every reviewer says the same thing: without good light it reads much darker than its chip, and a stone gray becomes a muddy one.

It fails against blue. Blue-undertoned upholstery, cool marble and blue-gray tile pull against its green and make both look wrong.

And it fails for anyone expecting Agreeable Gray with more depth. It is warmer and greener than Agreeable Gray, not just darker, and the difference shows on a wall.