Metro Gray
Benjamin Moore's Metro Gray is a gray shade whose quieter details emerge through comparison. Its neutral temperature leaves room for surrounding materials and light to pull the color warmer or cooler. Because screens flatten both light and texture, sample the paint beside the finishes that will ultimately surround it.
Hex
#CACAC8LRV
58.43
Metro Gray in Rooms
Follow Metro Gray 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 Kitchen Cabinets Photo
Metro Gray (1459) offers a starting mood rather than a finished formula: Its neutral temperature gives the surrounding palette unusual influence over the final mood. Test it under light moving across doors, rails and recessed panels.
Kitchen cabinets painted Metro Gray offer versatile sophistication for any cooking space.
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1 Misc Photo
1 misc image place Metro Gray (1459) in an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula. An LRV of 58.4 lets the color hold its identity across both brighter and more shaded parts of the room.
Walls finished in Metro Gray provide a balanced neutral for various design styles.
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Coordinating Colors
Chantilly Lace reflects far more light (LRV 90 vs 58), opening up a space where Metro Gray encloses it.
At LRV 58 vs 43, Metro Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 87 vs 58, Oxford White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 58 vs 8, Metro Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 59 and 58, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 58 vs 57), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 59 vs 58), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 60 vs 58), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Complementary Colors
Metro Gray reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 9), opening up a space where Approaching Storm encloses it.
At LRV 58 vs 22, Metro Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Metro Gray reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 14), opening up a space where Blue Gaspe encloses it.
A 10-point LRV gap (69 vs 58) makes Violet Sparkle the marginally brighter of the two.
Metro Gray reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 18), opening up a space where French Violet encloses it.
Metro Gray reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 7), opening up a space where Blackberry Punch encloses it.
At LRV 58 vs 39, Metro Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
Whisper reads slightly lighter (LRV 66 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 58 vs 57), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
This hazy gray hue is reminiscent of a foggy city morning.