Clean Slate vs Eventide
Both from Sherwin-Williams's palette. Both sit in the blue-green family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. Clean Slate (LRV 76) reflects noticeably more light than Eventide (LRV 41), a difference of 35 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. Both lean neutral, so they'll behave similarly in mixed or changing light conditions. With a ΔE of 19.8, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 4 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Clean Slate vs Eventide in Real Spaces
4 real rooms side by side. Seeing Clean Slate and Eventide in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
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 LRV gap is large enough that Clean Slate will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Eventide would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Clean Slate reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Eventide.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. Clean Slate returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
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. Clean Slate reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Eventide.
Color Details
Clean Slate vs Eventide Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Clean Slate on one side and Eventide 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 Clean Slate comparisons
See how Clean Slate stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
A 7-point LRV gap (76 vs 69) makes Clean Slate the marginally brighter of the two.
White Dove reads slightly lighter (LRV 83 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 6), opening up a space where Iron Ore encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 52, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 30, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 52), opening up a space where Mizzle encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 60, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 58), opening up a space where Accessible Beige encloses it.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 27), opening up a space where Denim Drift encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 43, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 76 vs 4, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 55), opening up a space where Tranquil Dawn encloses it.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 13), opening up a space where Bancha encloses it.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 44), opening up a space where Hardwick White encloses it.
A 8-point LRV gap (84 vs 76) makes Pure White the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 76 vs 21, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reads slightly lighter (LRV 76 vs 66), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 76 and 74, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Snowbound reads slightly lighter (LRV 83 vs 76), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 76 vs 51, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 12), opening up a space where Pewter Green encloses it.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 8), opening up a space where Duck Green encloses it.
Clean Slate reads slightly lighter (LRV 76 vs 68), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 76 vs 41, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 12), opening up a space where Vintage Vogue encloses it.
Clean Slate reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 45), opening up a space where Saybrook Sage encloses it.
At LRV 76 vs 31, Clean Slate is decisively the brighter choice.