The Color Digest · Compare

Settled, side by side

Jacket

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

Black, but made by hand

Townsend Harbor Brown

Benjamin Moore · HC-64

Burgundy with the lights off

LRV
7.13
#3A3634
Hex
#624443
58 · 54 · 52
RGB
98 · 68 · 67
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Charcoal-brown; a black softened by clay
Undertone
Warm red over clay; a burgundy depth
Grays
Family
Neutrals
Roman Clay
Collection
Historic Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Jacket

2 rooms
JacketPortola Roman Clay
Design byNia Miller
JacketPortola Roman Clay
Design byNia Miller
All 2 rooms

Townsend Harbor Brown

2 rooms
All 2 rooms

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Jacket is a grays, Townsend Harbor Brown a neutrals.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Townsend Harbor Brown is a near-black with a secret: a warm red undertone that reveals itself as burgundy the moment any light touches it. With an LRV of just 7.13 it absorbs almost everything, which is exactly why it makes such a rich, enveloping backdrop for moody rooms, cabinetry and front doors.