Market Square Shell
Market Square Shell is a Neutral paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. Its beige, greige and yellow 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
#C5BCA2LRV
49.99
Coordinating Colors
At LRV 74 vs 50, Prentis Cream is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 85 vs 50, Cloud White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 50 vs 9, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 87 vs 50, Capitol White is decisively the brighter choice.
Complementary Colors
Market Square Shell reflects far more light (LRV 50 vs 24), opening up a space where Bachelor Blue encloses it.
At LRV 50 vs 9, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 50 vs 34, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
Market Square Shell reflects far more light (LRV 50 vs 36), opening up a space where Comet encloses it.
At LRV 50 vs 14, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 50 vs 12, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
Market Square Shell reflects far more light (LRV 50 vs 8), opening up a space where Hale Navy encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 53 vs 50), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Ashwood reflects far more light (LRV 67 vs 50), opening up a space where Market Square Shell encloses it.
Skipping Stone reads slightly lighter (LRV 62 vs 50), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 65 vs 50, Natural Cream is decisively the brighter choice.
Darker Colors
A 10-point LRV gap (50 vs 40) makes Market Square Shell the marginally brighter of the two.
Market Square Shell reads slightly lighter (LRV 50 vs 46), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 50 vs 35, Market Square Shell is decisively the brighter choice.
Market Square Shell reflects far more light (LRV 50 vs 30), opening up a space where At Home with Nature encloses it.
Market Square Shell reflects far more light (LRV 50 vs 32), opening up a space where Old Salem Gray encloses it.
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Manufacturer description
Anchored in Colonial Williamsburg's colonial revivial palette, this gracious, elegant neutral is fresh and sophisticated.