Tavern Gray
Tavern Gray is a Neutral 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. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#918A75LRV
26.60
Coordinating Colors
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 27), opening up a space where Tavern Gray encloses it.
At LRV 75 vs 27, Geddy White is decisively the brighter choice.
Levingston Green reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 27), opening up a space where Tavern Gray encloses it.
Revere Pewter reflects far more light (LRV 55 vs 27), opening up a space where Tavern Gray encloses it.
Complementary Colors
Tavern Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 24), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 27 vs 9, Tavern Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
A 7-point LRV gap (34 vs 27) makes Coastline the marginally brighter of the two.
Comet reads slightly lighter (LRV 36 vs 27), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 27 vs 14, Tavern Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 27 vs 12, Tavern Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Tavern Gray reflects far more light (LRV 27 vs 8), opening up a space where Hale Navy encloses it.
Lighter Colors
With LRVs of 27 and 26, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 27 vs 25), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 29 and 27, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 27 and 25, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 10-point LRV gap (37 vs 27) makes Rockport Gray the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
Tavern Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 16), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Tavern Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 19), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Tavern Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 22), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 27 vs 24), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Tavern Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 20), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
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Manufacturer description
A rich, deep gray with a mossy green undertone, Tavern gray is based on the 18th century practice of mixing white and black pigments.