Blackened vs Inox
Where Blackened belongs to Farrow & Ball's range, Inox is a Little Greene color. Both sit in the grey family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. They have nearly identical light reflectance values (71 vs 71), so they'll read as similarly Light in most lighting conditions. Blackened runs neutral while Inox is decidedly yellow, which means they'll respond very differently to warm vs cool light sources. At ΔE 0.9, these are close — the kind of difference that matters when choosing between them, but doesn't read strongly in a finished room. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Blackened vs Inox in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Blackened and Inox are close enough that the difference can be hard to judge from a chip alone — these photos show how each reads at scale, across different spaces and lighting conditions.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The two are close enough that the choice comes down to finer qualities — undertone, texture, what the color sits next to.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. At this scale the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side, as shown here, to reliably tell them apart.
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen cabinets are constantly compared against adjacent materials, which means subtle differences between these two become much more visible. At this scale the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side, as shown here, to reliably tell them apart.
Color Details
Blackened vs Inox Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Blackened on one side and Inox on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
More Blackened comparisons
See how Blackened stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
White Dove reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 71), opening up a space where Blackened encloses it.
At LRV 71 vs 52, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 71 vs 30, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
A 11-point LRV gap (71 vs 60) makes Blackened the marginally brighter of the two.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 58), opening up a space where Accessible Beige encloses it.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 71 vs 43, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 55), opening up a space where Tranquil Dawn encloses it.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
At LRV 84 vs 71, Pure White is decisively the brighter choice.
Blackened reads slightly lighter (LRV 71 vs 66), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Shoji White reads slightly lighter (LRV 74 vs 71), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
With LRVs of 71 and 68, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Blackened reflects far more light (LRV 71 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 71 vs 31, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 71 vs 7, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 71 vs 24, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 71 vs 57, Blackened is decisively the brighter choice.