Cattail
Cattail is a Brown paint color from Benjamin Moore, but its character reaches beyond a single label. It appears in Color Stories®, placing it within several distinct decorating stories rather than a single fixed look. The manufacturer's description below offers one reading; the room imagery leaves space for your own.
Hex
#886348LRV
15.90
Coordinating Colors
A 6-point LRV gap (16 vs 10) makes Cattail the marginally brighter of the two.
First Crush reflects far more light (LRV 72 vs 16), opening up a space where Cattail encloses it.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 16 vs 15), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 16 and 16, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 16 vs 16), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Complementary Colors
A 3-point LRV gap (19 vs 16) makes Providence Blue the marginally brighter of the two.
Van Courtland Blue reflects far more light (LRV 31 vs 16), opening up a space where Cattail encloses it.
With LRVs of 16 and 14, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 17 vs 16), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Lighter Colors
With LRVs of 17 and 16, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 4-point LRV gap (20 vs 16) makes Antique Copper the marginally brighter of the two.
With LRVs of 18 and 16, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Jackson Tan reads slightly lighter (LRV 28 vs 16), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
Cattail reads slightly lighter (LRV 16 vs 13), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Cattail reads slightly lighter (LRV 16 vs 10), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 4-point LRV gap (16 vs 12) makes Cattail the marginally brighter of the two.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
The mirror-still surface of the lake reflected the red-brown cattails where the mallard ducks made their nest.