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.