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Settled, side by side
Jacket
Portola Paints · Roman Clay
Black, but made by hand
Little Falls
Benjamin Moore · 1621
Faded denim for the walls
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersJacket leans warm where Little Falls reads cool. Jacket is a grays, Little Falls a blues.
How they read
In their own wordsJacket 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.
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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