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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Alabaster

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7008

11.64
LRV
82.215
Alabaster is 70.6 points lighter
#525A60
Hex
#EDEAE0
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
237 · 234 · 224
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Deep Secret is cool; Alabaster is warm.
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Warm creamy white with a faint beige-yellow base
Gray
Family
White
Color Stories
Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Alabaster is the lighter of the two at LRV 82.215, 70.6 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Deep Secret leans cool where Alabaster reads warm. Deep Secret is a gray, Alabaster a white. For a whole room, Alabaster 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.

Alabaster (SW 7008) is a soft, creamy white with a faint beige-yellow undertone — warm enough to feel inviting, clean enough to still read as white. At LRV 82 it brightens a room without the starkness of a true white.

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