Bear Creek
Bear Creek is a Gray paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its greige and grey classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#726A62LRV
16.11
Coordinating Colors
At LRV 90 vs 16, Chantilly Lace is decisively the brighter choice.
Cloud White reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 16), opening up a space where Bear Creek encloses it.
At LRV 65 vs 16, Gray Owl is decisively the brighter choice.
Stone House reflects far more light (LRV 49 vs 16), opening up a space where Bear Creek encloses it.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 16), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 16), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 16 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 16 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Lighter Colors
A 6-point LRV gap (22 vs 16) makes Barnwood the marginally brighter of the two.
Gotham reads slightly lighter (LRV 22 vs 16), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 8-point LRV gap (24 vs 16) makes Eagle Rock the marginally brighter of the two.
Taos Taupe reads slightly lighter (LRV 24 vs 16), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Castle Gate reads slightly lighter (LRV 26 vs 16), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
Bear Creek reads slightly lighter (LRV 16 vs 8), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 7-point LRV gap (16 vs 9) makes Bear Creek the marginally brighter of the two.
A 9-point LRV gap (16 vs 7) makes Bear Creek the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 16 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
Smoky brown undertones soften this deep, woodsy neutral.