Richmond Gray
Richmond Gray is a Brown paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. It appears in Historical Colors, placing it within several distinct decorating stories rather than a single fixed look. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#CEC7AALRV
56.13
Richmond Gray in Rooms
Follow Richmond Gray from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 5 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
3 Living Room Photos
In a space shaped by conversation, quiet evenings and changing daylight, the most interesting quality of Richmond Gray (HC-96) may be the way it responds to upholstery, timber, art and metal accents. Its yellow undertone may become clearest at the boundary between paint and a contrasting finish.
Living room transformed with Richmond Gray wall color.
@mark.hartman.souder
Hallway painted Richmond Gray offers sophisticated, understated elegance.
@bergenpainters
Walls in Richmond Gray provide versatile neutral backdrop.
@bergenpainters
2 Misc Photos
Richmond Gray (HC-96) brings its brown character into an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula. Its warm classification can feel inviting beside tactile, natural materials.
Walls painted Richmond Gray create a serene, neutral foundation.
@hollyelizabethh52
Wall paint Richmond Gray delivers calm, balanced tone.
@bergenpainters
Coordinating Colors
White Heron reflects far more light (LRV 87 vs 56), opening up a space where Richmond Gray encloses it.
At LRV 56 vs 16, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 56 vs 24, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 80 vs 56, Ancient Ivory is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 56 and 56, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
Richmond Gray reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 24), opening up a space where Bachelor Blue encloses it.
At LRV 56 vs 9, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Richmond Gray reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 36), opening up a space where Comet encloses it.
At LRV 56 vs 14, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 56 vs 12, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Richmond Gray reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 8), opening up a space where Hale Navy encloses it.
Richmond Gray reflects far more light (LRV 56 vs 22), opening up a space where Luxe encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 56 vs 56), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Gray Mist reflects far more light (LRV 73 vs 56), opening up a space where Richmond Gray encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 56, Seapearl is decisively the brighter choice.
Tapestry Beige reads slightly lighter (LRV 66 vs 56), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 71 vs 56, Sea Wind is decisively the brighter choice.
Darker Colors
At LRV 56 vs 40, Richmond Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Richmond Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 56 vs 47), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Richmond Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 56 vs 46), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Richmond Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 56 vs 50), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Richmond Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 56 vs 52), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
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Manufacturer description
An herbaceous neutral hue made from a gentle mix of green and brown.