Essential Gray
Sherwin-Williams
Essential Gray in the light of your own room
Take a photo of the room. Muro puts this color on the walls in the light the room actually has.
Try Essential Gray on your wallAlso on iPhone and iPadiPhone, iPad and browser · a screen cannot replace a sample on the wall
How Essential Gray behaves on a wall
Our estimate, worked out from the hex colour, puts the light reflectance value of this Sherwin-Williams shade at about 48.3; Sherwin-Williams's own figure may differ. At an estimated LRV of 48.3 this sits mid-scale — dark enough to hold its own against white trim, light enough not to close a room in. Mid-tones shift the most between daylight and lamplight, so check it at both ends of the day. For trim that reads as a clear edge rather than a smudge, aim about 30 LRV points away in either direction — under LRV 18 or over LRV 78. Its red and blue channels are within a few points of each other, so it has no undertone worth naming — it takes its cast from whatever it sits beside. Order by the code, not the name, and put a test patch on the wall before you commit — a screen cannot show you how this shade behaves in your own light.
Essential Gray equivalents in other paint brands
The closest color to Sherwin-Williams Essential Gray from each brand we carry, measured with CIEDE2000 on the manufacturers' published color values. Below 1 the difference is practically invisible; below 2 you'd only notice it with the chips side by side. Screens and printed chips aren't paint, so compare real samples before you buy. In the Muro app you can put two of them on a photo of your own wall and look at them in your light.