Knitting Needles
Sherwin-Williams Knitting Needles (7672) carries the measured structure of its color data and the less predictable beauty of paint in a finished space. Its neutral temperature leaves room for surrounding materials and light to pull the color warmer or cooler. Move between the room imagery, color measurements and coordinating shades to build a fuller sense of how it might live in your space.
Hex
#C3C1BCLRV
53.25
Knitting Needles's Color Strip
Knitting Needles is the second shade on this 7-color strip, sitting between Zircon and March Wind. The strip spans from Zircon at the lightest end to Grapy at the deepest. Strip 282 makes it easy to compare shades side by side and find the right depth for your space.
Knitting Needles in Rooms
Follow Knitting Needles from one space to another and watch how light, scale and surrounding materials reshape its character. 4 sourced room photos offer a closer look at the color in lived-in settings.
2 Misc Photos
Viewed across 2 misc images in an assortment of spaces that reveals the color outside a single design formula, Knitting Needles (7672) reveals how much color depends on scale, surface and shadow. An LRV of 53.3 lets the color hold its identity across both brighter and more shaded parts of the room.
Walls in Knitting Needles provide a gentle, neutral foundation.
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Shiplap walls painted Knitting Needles add subtle texture.
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1 Bedroom Photo
1 sourced room photo gives the gallery a lived-in point of reference. Together they show Knitting Needles (7672) as inspiration rather than a promise of an identical result.
Bedroom walls in Knitting Needles offer calm, cohesive color.
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1 Kitchen Cabinets Photo
Knitting Needles (7672) brings its neutral character into cabinetry, where color becomes part of the room’s architecture. Its muted saturation softens the color’s edges, making texture and shadow part of the composition.
Kitchen cabinets in Knitting Needles deliver timeless, clean style.
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Coordinating Colors
At LRV 86 vs 53, Extra White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 83 vs 53, Shell White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 53 vs 20, Knitting Needles is decisively the brighter choice.
Trim Color
At LRV 86 vs 53, Extra White is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 56 vs 53), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 53 vs 51), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Zircon reads slightly lighter (LRV 59 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 5-point LRV gap (53 vs 49) makes Knitting Needles the marginally brighter of the two.
A 4-point LRV gap (57 vs 53) makes Autonomous the marginally brighter of the two.
With LRVs of 54 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Antimony reads slightly lighter (LRV 57 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 53 vs 7, Knitting Needles is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 69 vs 53, Starry Night is decisively the brighter choice.
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 20), opening up a space where Soulful Blue encloses it.
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 28), opening up a space where Dusty Heather encloses it.
A 6-point LRV gap (53 vs 47) makes Knitting Needles the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 53 vs 3, Knitting Needles is decisively the brighter choice.
Lavender Wisp reflects far more light (LRV 83 vs 53), opening up a space where Knitting Needles encloses it.
Lighter Colors
Zircon reads slightly lighter (LRV 59 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 56 vs 53), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 53 and 53, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Big Chill reads slightly lighter (LRV 62 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 25), opening up a space where Alloy encloses it.
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 34), opening up a space where Rushing River encloses it.
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 36), opening up a space where Western Reserve encloses it.
A 5-point LRV gap (53 vs 49) makes Knitting Needles the marginally brighter of the two.
Knitting Needles reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 30), opening up a space where Summit Gray encloses it.
Color Codes
Manufacturer description
Snuggle up to this soft, subdued gray. Its cool purple undertone lends this neutral a calming nuance.
Attributed to Sherwin-Williams catalog data.