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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Agreeable Gray

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7029

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

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. Deep Secret leans cool where Agreeable Gray reads warm. Deep Secret is a gray, Agreeable Gray a beige. 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

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.

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.

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