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Settled, side by side

Pashmina

Benjamin Moore · AF-100

Agreeable Gray

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7029

44.2
LRV
60.386
Agreeable Gray is 16.2 points lighter
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Hex
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187 · 178 · 161
RGB
209 · 203 · 193
Neutral
Warmth
Warm
Pashmina is neutral; Agreeable Gray is warm.
Balanced taupe — neither warm nor cool, neither light nor dark
Undertone
Warm greige — beige-gray that can flash a faint violet in cool light
Beige
Family
Beige
Affinity
Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Agreeable Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 60.386, 16.2 points above Pashmina at LRV 44.2. Pashmina leans neutral where Agreeable Gray reads warm. Both belong to the beige family. For a whole room, Agreeable Gray is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pashmina is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Agreeable Gray (SW 7029) is the color that turned 'greige' into a household word. With an LRV of about 60 it sits right in the comfortable middle — light enough to keep a room open, deep enough to read as a true color rather than an off-white.

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