Tavern Taupe

A mid-weight orange undertone. In the Sherwin-Williams lineup this is SW 7508.

Light reflectance measures 26.7, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. At chroma 12.2 the orange undertone is clear in daylight and softer under lamps.

It has enough weight for a main wall and enough restraint for a hallway. It holds up in a north-facing room, which is where warmth is usually missing. If a second wall color is wanted in the same room, Behr Script White keeps the jump obvious rather than muddy (roughly 45.3 LRV points from this one).

Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 26.7, 56 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

By the numbers, Benjamin Moore Ticonderoga Taupe (992) and this color are indistinguishable - delta-E 0.98, well under what the eye can separate. 3 other-brand colors land within delta-E 2 of this one - a well-populated part of the spectrum with several near-equivalents to choose from. Eggshell is a common middle ground here - enough durability for a lived-in room without the sheen that would draw attention to wall imperfections.

It is lighter than 34 percent of the Sherwin-Williams range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 447 colors measure within a point of 26.7 - so most brands will have something close. The name is not unique: Behr N140-4 also sells a color called Tavern Taupe, and it is not the same shade. Sherwin-Williams lists it in the 7000 series, alongside 335 other colors.