Tropical Dusk
Benjamin Moore's Tropical Dusk is a purple 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
#857D8FLRV
23.32
Tropical Dusk in Rooms
Follow Tropical Dusk from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 5 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
4 Living Room Photos
Across 4 living room images, Tropical Dusk (2117-40) meets the movement from window light to lamplight. Its neutral temperature gives the surrounding palette unusual influence over the final mood.
Living room walls in Tropical Dusk create an inviting, tropical-inspired retreat.
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Feature wall painted Tropical Dusk brings sunset hues to open-concept living.
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Walls in Tropical Dusk complement woven textures and natural wood furnishings.
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Living room accent in Tropical Dusk creates an intimate gathering space.
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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, Tropical Dusk (2117-40) reveals how much color depends on scale, surface and shadow. An LRV of 23.3 lets the color hold its identity across both brighter and more shaded parts of the room.
Warm wall finish in Tropical Dusk adds depth to transitional style homes.
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Coordinating Colors
Distant Gray reflects far more light (LRV 88 vs 23), opening up a space where Tropical Dusk encloses it.
Sweet Spring reflects far more light (LRV 63 vs 23), opening up a space where Tropical Dusk encloses it.
At LRV 80 vs 23, Snow on the Mountain is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 69 vs 23, Bunny Gray is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 23 vs 22), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Amorous reads slightly lighter (LRV 27 vs 23), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 24 vs 23), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 23 and 23, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 63 vs 23, Night Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
White Violet reflects far more light (LRV 82 vs 23), opening up a space where Tropical Dusk encloses it.
At LRV 82 vs 23, Winter Snow is decisively the brighter choice.
Adirondack Green reads slightly lighter (LRV 29 vs 23), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Healing Aloe reflects far more light (LRV 68 vs 23), opening up a space where Tropical Dusk encloses it.
At LRV 43 vs 23, Garden Path is decisively the brighter choice.
Tropical Dusk reads slightly lighter (LRV 23 vs 14), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
A 8-point LRV gap (23 vs 15) makes Tropical Dusk the marginally brighter of the two.
Tropical Dusk reads slightly lighter (LRV 23 vs 20), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
Smoky yet rich, this violet hue evokes the enigmatic allure of nightfall.