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Settled, side by side

Agreeable Gray

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7029

Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

60.386
LRV
58.58
Agreeable Gray is 1.8 points lighter
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Hex
#C6CBCC
209 · 203 · 193
RGB
198 · 203 · 204
Warm
Warmth
Cool
Agreeable Gray is warm; Pelican Gray is cool.
Warm greige — beige-gray that can flash a faint violet in cool light
Undertone
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Beige
Family
Gray
Collection
Classics Color Collection

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Agreeable Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 60.386, 1.8 points above Pelican Gray at LRV 58.58. Agreeable Gray leans warm where Pelican Gray reads cool. Agreeable Gray is a beige, Pelican Gray a gray. For a whole room, Agreeable Gray is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pelican Gray 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.

Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.

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