Desert Shadows
Desert Shadows is a Purple paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its grey classifications hint at the directions it may take as daylight, lamps and neighboring colors move around it. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#685553LRV
11.90
Coordinating Colors
Cloud Cover reflects far more light (LRV 80 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
Cement Gray reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
At LRV 50 vs 12, Batik is decisively the brighter choice.
Atrium White reflects far more light (LRV 85 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 13 and 12, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 12 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 12 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 12 and 9, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
Marilyn's Dress reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
A 11-point LRV gap (23 vs 12) makes Shark Gray the marginally brighter of the two.
Wetherburn's Blue reads slightly lighter (LRV 24 vs 12), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Aegean Teal reflects far more light (LRV 25 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
Porringer Gray reflects far more light (LRV 57 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
Beneath the Clouds reflects far more light (LRV 42 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
At LRV 66 vs 12, Blue Lace is decisively the brighter choice.
A 7-point LRV gap (19 vs 12) makes Providence Blue the marginally brighter of the two.
Van Courtland Blue reflects far more light (LRV 31 vs 12), opening up a space where Desert Shadows encloses it.
With LRVs of 14 and 12, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 5-point LRV gap (17 vs 12) makes Blue Spruce the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
A 4-point LRV gap (12 vs 8) makes Desert Shadows the marginally brighter of the two.
Desert Shadows reads slightly lighter (LRV 12 vs 6), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Desert Shadows reads slightly lighter (LRV 12 vs 7), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
An intoxicating blend of violet and gray, this dark hue evokes a quiet desert landscape at nightfall.