Bare vs Grey Heron
Bare is a Jotun color while Grey Heron comes from Sherwin-Williams. Both sit in the greige-grey family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. With LRVs of 64 and 65, they'll behave almost identically in terms of how much light they reflect back into a room. They share a warm quality — useful to know if you're layering them in the same space. With a ΔE of 1.9, the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side to reliably tell them apart. Below you'll find 4 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Bare vs Grey Heron in Real Spaces
4 real rooms side by side. Bare and Grey Heron 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
Living rooms test a color across a full range of conditions — morning sun, afternoon shade, and evening lamp light all shift how both of these read. In photos like these you're seeing the difference at its most direct. In a finished room, the distinction is there but not dramatic.
Kitchen
Kitchen lighting tends to be bright and directional, which sharpens contrast and makes undertone differences more apparent. The two are close enough that the choice comes down to finer qualities — undertone, texture, what the color sits next to.
Dining Room
Dining room light is typically the warmest in the house, which shifts both colors toward the red end of the spectrum compared to daylight. At this scale the difference is subtle — you'd need them side by side, as shown here, to reliably tell them apart.
Home Office
In a home office, wall color sits in your peripheral vision for hours at a time, so temperature and undertone matter more than you might expect. The two are close enough that the choice comes down to finer qualities — undertone, texture, what the color sits next to.
Color Details
Bare vs Grey Heron Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Bare on one side and Grey Heron 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 Bare comparisons
See how Bare stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 83 vs 64, White Dove is decisively the brighter choice.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 52), opening up a space where Purbeck Stone encloses it.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 30), opening up a space where Evergreen Fog encloses it.
Bare reads slightly lighter (LRV 64 vs 60), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 7-point LRV gap (64 vs 58) makes Bare the marginally brighter of the two.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 43), opening up a space where French Gray encloses it.
A 9-point LRV gap (64 vs 55) makes Bare the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 64 vs 44, Bare is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 64), opening up a space where Bare encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 66 vs 64), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 10-point LRV gap (74 vs 64) makes Shoji White the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 64 vs 12, Bare is decisively the brighter choice.
A 4-point LRV gap (68 vs 64) makes Skimming Stone the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 64 vs 12, Bare is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 64 vs 45, Bare is decisively the brighter choice.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 31), opening up a space where Pale Green encloses it.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.
Bare reflects far more light (LRV 64 vs 24), opening up a space where Cement grey encloses it.
Bare reads slightly lighter (LRV 64 vs 57), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.