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Settled, side by side

Agreeable Gray

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7029

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

60.386
LRV
11.64
Agreeable Gray is 48.7 points lighter
#D1CBC1
Hex
#525A60
209 · 203 · 193
RGB
82 · 90 · 96
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Agreeable Gray is warm; Deep Secret is cool.
Warm greige — beige-gray that can flash a faint violet in cool light
Undertone
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Beige
Family
Gray
Collection
Color Stories

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Agreeable Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 60.386, 48.7 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Agreeable Gray leans warm where Deep Secret reads cool. Agreeable Gray is a beige, Deep Secret a gray. For a whole room, Agreeable Gray is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Deep Secret is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Agreeable Gray (SW 7029) is the color that turned 'greige' into a household word. With an LRV of about 60 it sits right in the comfortable middle — light enough to keep a room open, deep enough to read as a true color rather than an off-white.

Deep Secret is a dark charcoal grey with a clear blue undertone — Benjamin Moore files it in the blue family and calls it 'your new favorite gray'. It comes from the Color Stories collection, whose full-spectrum formulas shift more with the light than standard paints.

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