Please vote - Manchester Tan or Shaker Beige
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Please help me find an accent color for Shaker Beige++
Comments (1)Check out hot apple spice by BM... it looks great with tan. Not the best picture, but you get the idea......See Morebest color -benjamin moore shaker beige HC45
Comments (9)I agree with sewwhat - Shaker Beige is a fab, flexible color. Great for resale and really great for anything. It's a quiet, elegant *neutral* golden tan. If you like historic colors, you should check out Pratt & Lambert's Williamsburg Color Collection. Pratt recently signed a new licensing agreement with Williamsburg for another 20 years - yep, because the colors are THAT lovely and scrumptious. Here is a link that might be useful: Williamsburg fandeck...See MoreDifference b/w BM Carrington Beige and Manchester Tan?
Comments (23)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....See MoreShaker Beige & Gobi Desert
Comments (2)Thanks. How funny... I would think the Shaker Beige had the green tone, not Manchester Tan. I have Manchester Tan in my kitchen and find it to be a real neutral gray taupe. Shaker Beige, on the chip, at least seems like it could have a greenish undertone. It can be really difficult trying to translate one brand into another. Looking at my paint chips, BM Manchester Tan looks similar to SW Softer Tan & Kilim Beige...though a tad grayer. I have the SW Macadamia chip... (I have a bunch of sample cards!!lol) and to me it looks a lot like BM Crisp Khaki...and actually Behr's Gobi Desert too. You may want to check them out. I put Macadamia next to Manchester Tan and dont see them as similar at all. Macadamia looks more brown toned....See MoreUser
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