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
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Jacket is a grays, Townsend Harbor Brown a neutrals.
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.
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.