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Settled, side by side

Deep Secret

Benjamin Moore · CSP-625

Pashmina

Benjamin Moore · AF-100

11.64
LRV
44.2
Pashmina is 32.6 points lighter
#525A60
Hex
#BBB2A1
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
187 · 178 · 161
Cool
Warmth
Neutral
Deep Secret is cool; Pashmina is neutral.
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Balanced taupe — neither warm nor cool, neither light nor dark
Gray
Family
Beige
Color Stories
Collection
Affinity

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Pashmina is the lighter of the two at LRV 44.2, 32.6 points above Deep Secret at LRV 11.64. Deep Secret leans cool where Pashmina reads neutral. Deep Secret is a gray, Pashmina a beige. For a whole room, Pashmina 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.

Pashmina is Benjamin Moore's most even-handed taupe: the brand describes it as 'perfectly balanced between warm and cool, light and dark'. It belongs to the Affinity collection, designed so that every colour in it harmonises with every other.

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