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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Jacket

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

11.64
LRV
#525A60
Hex
#3A3634
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
58 · 54 · 52
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Deep Secret is cool; Jacket is warm.
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Charcoal-brown; a black softened by clay
Gray
Family
Gray
Color Stories
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Deep Secret leans cool where Jacket reads warm. Both belong to the gray family.

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.

Jacket is a Portola Roman Clay in a deep charcoal-brown — a black with the hardness taken out. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the surface is never uniform: it shifts between soot and warm ash across a wall, with a soft, suede-like depth that no flat paint can match.

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