Faded Violet
Faded Violet is a Purple 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. Treat the digital swatch as an opening note, then watch a physical sample from morning light through evening lamps.
Hex
#8D8FA1LRV
29.18
Faded Violet in Rooms
Follow Faded Violet from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 2 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
1 Bedroom Photo
The slower pace of morning and night can draw different notes from Faded Violet (CSP-455). The blue, grey, purple hue classifications suggest the subtle directions the color may take as the room changes.
Bedroom walls in Faded Violet create a serene, soft lavender atmosphere.
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1 Misc Photo
Viewed across 1 misc image in an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula, Faded Violet (CSP-455) reveals how much color depends on scale, surface and shadow. An LRV of 29.2 lets the color hold its identity across both brighter and more shaded parts of the room.
Wall treatment using Faded Violet delivers a pale, sophisticated purple tone.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 62 vs 29, Collingwood is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 72 vs 29, Strand of Pearls is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 29 vs 9, Faded Violet is decisively the brighter choice.
Cloud Cover reflects far more light (LRV 80 vs 29), opening up a space where Faded Violet encloses it.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 29 and 29, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 3-point LRV gap (29 vs 26) makes Faded Violet the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 29 vs 29), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 6-point LRV gap (29 vs 23) makes Faded Violet the marginally brighter of the two.
Complementary Colors
A 10-point LRV gap (39 vs 29) makes Upper West Side the marginally brighter of the two.
Himalayan Trek reflects far more light (LRV 47 vs 29), opening up a space where Faded Violet encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 32 vs 29), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Thunder reflects far more light (LRV 48 vs 29), opening up a space where Faded Violet encloses it.
Faded Violet reads slightly lighter (LRV 29 vs 20), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
River Gorge Gray reads slightly lighter (LRV 33 vs 29), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 29 and 27, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Darker Colors
A 12-point LRV gap (29 vs 18) makes Faded Violet the marginally brighter of the two.
A 11-point LRV gap (29 vs 18) makes Faded Violet the marginally brighter of the two.
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Manufacturer description
Ascending the steps, I saw my childhood room, still with the same sheer purple curtains, washed by the sun to a beautiful violet hue.