18 colors

Greige, and how to tell one from another

Greige is grey with enough warmth to stop it turning blue in north light. The useful measurement is chroma: below 4 it is simply grey, above 10 the beige takes over. The band in between is what the word actually means.

Light greige

10 colors

LRV 60 and up. Open-plan walls, where the color has to work in several exposures at once.

ColorBrandLRV Chroma Undertone
Painter's WhitePPU18-8 Behr 404.0 4.3 yellow cast
White Cloud2159-70 Benjamin Moore 89.9 9.0 yellow undertone
Vanilla ShakeDEW325 Dunn-Edwards 96.5 5.7 yellow cast
Bora SandVS-9110 Dutch Boy 91.8 5.8 greige
Pointing2003 Farrow & Ball 86.3 6.3 yellow cast
Milk And HoneyLE190-01 Kilz 87.8 9.9 yellow undertone
Atrium White1020-1 PPG 85.0 5.2 yellow cast
Roman ColumnSW 7562 Sherwin-Williams 87.6 7.5 yellow undertone
Betsy's Linen7005-16 Valspar 90.0 7.8 yellow undertone
Palace GownOW146 Vista Paint 90.0 5.3 yellow cast

Mid greige

8 colors

LRV 45 to 60. Enough depth to show against white trim without darkening the room.

ColorBrandLRV Chroma Undertone
Old MapN230-2 Behr 60.0 8.2 yellow undertone
Rocking ChairCSP-400 Benjamin Moore 59.9 7.8 yellow undertone
Desert RockDE6066 Dunn-Edwards 58.2 7.4 orange undertone
Cornforth White228 Farrow & Ball 60.0 4.0 yellow cast
Impressionist TaupeLL260 Kilz 57.6 5.3 greige
Swirling Smoke1007-2 PPG 60.0 5.0 yellow cast
Unfussy BeigeSW 6043 Sherwin-Williams 59.7 6.7 greige
Bay Sands5008-1B Valspar 59.0 7.6 yellow undertone

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