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Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

Agreeable Gray

Sherwin-Williams · SW 7029

58.58
LRV
60.386
Agreeable Gray is 1.8 points lighter
#C6CBCC
Hex
#D1CBC1
198 · 203 · 204
RGB
209 · 203 · 193
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pelican Gray is cool; Agreeable Gray is warm.
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Undertone
Warm greige — beige-gray that can flash a faint violet in cool light
Gray
Family
Beige
Classics Color Collection
Collection

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The difference

Read from the numbers

Agreeable Gray is the lighter of the two at LRV 60.386, 1.8 points above Pelican Gray at LRV 58.58. Pelican Gray leans cool where Agreeable Gray reads warm. Pelican Gray is a gray, Agreeable Gray a beige. For a whole room, Agreeable Gray is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Pelican Gray is the bolder pick.

How they read

In their own words

Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.

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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