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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Little Falls

Benjamin Moore · 1621

11.64
LRV
41.07
Little Falls is 29.4 points lighter
#525A60
Hex
#9EADB7
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
158 · 173 · 183
Cool
Warmth
Cool
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Dusty steel blue with grey; a denim that has been washed many times
Gray
Family
Blue
Color Stories
Collection
Classics Color Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Little Falls is the lighter of the two at LRV 41.07, 29.4 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Both read cool. Deep Secret is a gray, Little Falls a blue. For a whole room, Little Falls 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.

Little Falls is a mid-tone, grey-softened blue with the ease of well-worn denim. At LRV 41 it holds its color in daylight without ever becoming bright, and its grey base keeps it from reading as nursery blue. It is calm without being cold.

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