Is there something above that would tell me if it leans gray. You are correct. Chroma tells you how close to a neutral white, gray or black (the grayscale) a color is. It's called the whiteness, grayness or blackness characteristic of a color. MT's Chroma is 1.48 and Jute is 1.42. So Jute is just a snidge more grayed than MT. Or you could reverse it and say MT is just a snidge more colorful than Jute. Sometimes when people perceive a characteristic of grayness they'll call it a "gray undertone". When they perceive a characteristic of whiteness, they'll sometimes call it "chalky". Whiteness, grayness, blackness is not only technically correct, I think it's a lot more specific and simpler. As far as warm and cool, every color in context of its color system can be categorized as inherently warm or cool. In the example above, once you get to the 5Y mark in the yellow hue family, the colors start to shift to the cool side. Every color in a color system has a warm side and a cool side. With color temperature, odds are the inherent color temperature of a color will hold true. But context matters, the light matters. In situ with other contents of a room, a color that's warm in context of its color system could take on a cool role - or vice versa a color that's inherently cool could take on a warm role. Here's the Colorography for Manchester Tan. Puts the color in context of its hue family and illustrates chroma; maybe makes the whiteness, grayness, blackness scale I'm talking about easier to see/understand.

Laurie: Northampton putty looks awesome in my bedroom. I wanted something more brown but maybe I shouldn't mess with a good thing. I'll paint a huge sample board and tape it up in my PR and post pics for your opinion. lacombe: I'll post a picture of my sample board in my PR for your opinion. pluckymama: I'll paint a huge sample board of jamesboro gold along with northampton putty and post a picture for votes. I went on the easyrgb website to convert SW Hopsack & Portabello to BM colors since I don't have a SW fandeck. SW Hopsack converted to these BM colors: Jamesboro Gold, Jackson Tan and Woodstock Tan. SW Portabello converted to BM Davenport Tan, Jamesboro Gold and Kingsport Gray. Isn't it ironic that both colors when converted to BM gave Jamesboro Gold as a close match. Maybe it's a sign?!? I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I won't be disapointed with Sag Harbor Gray for my kitchen. I love my Minas soapstone! I purchased a mineral oil beeswax from William Sonoma to oil my soapstone. It takes a bit more elbow grease but last twice as long as plain mineral oil. It's also not as messy. Good luck and keep me posted.

I am re-painting my home and have zoned in on BM Shaker Beige for the two story foyer ( which includes an upstairs living loft area) and a downstairs adjoining living room. My dinning room is in a Laura Ashley burgundy ( which I still love so keeping the same). The kitchen has three separate entry points ( dinning room, family room and back entryway/hallway). It also shares walls to another loft type area - so the dinning area in the kitchen is two stories with a lot of natural light. I think BM Lenox Tan will look good in the kitchen. Left with choosing paint colors for the family room and a back hallway. Currently, both are in a Laura Ashley Gold 3. I still would like to keep the back hallway in a gold color and flexible about family room color. All of this area ( family room, kitchen and back hallway) is at the back of the house and run into each other. In need of some gold color suggestions ( for back hallway) and maybe some greenish color suggestions for the family room. Taking into consideration that Lenox tan ( kitchen) sits right in the middle of these two areas. One last thing - The family room has a huge fireplace ( red brick runs almost the span of an entire wall). Thanks!

Color needs to work with the fabrics (cornice especially) in any room. Buy sample pots and large white poster boards to paint a sample in the middle. That way the current yellow tone won't overwhelm the color you're sampling. Move the board(s) around to different walls at different times of day and night and different weather conditions to see how changing light changes it.