According to my Paint.NET program both Gray Owl and Revere Pewter have a yellow undertone. Furthermore, warm white lighting will accent the yellow. Both CFL and LED lighting lists color temperatures as 2700K for warm white up to 6500K for bluish "daylight." Color temperature has nothing to do with actual temperature.

The RGB color space is not the correct color space to use for architectural color.

I want a light warm gray for cabinets.

Try Edgecomb Gray. Just make sure it doesn't shift blue/purple in your space.

Not a fan of s.w. but try elephant ear. It is a light taupe. Not grey and not brown.

This is Revere Pewter w/calacatta:

or try Worldly Gray,,it's a bit more warm tone

this photo link, they used BM Gray Mist https://www.decorpad.com/photo.htm?photoId=128177

this room is SW 'Ancient Marble' w/the calacatta

But a lot of people have asked about undertones for various grays and whites. The only way I know to answer such questions is to evaluate the color. If you know of another way to evaluate color undertones please tell me.

Undertones are subjective not objective. Ask three people about a color's undertone and you'll very likely get three different answers. Which means it is impossible to objectively and consistently evaluate color from an undertones perspective.

Many have been led to believe that they should know about undertones or are supposed to train their eye to see undertones. Yet no one has a tangible explanation for undertones, or where they come from, or how they are consistently applicable and useful from person to person, color to color, context to context. It's the Emperor's New Clothes.

The one and only correct way to assess and compare color is by the psychophysical dimensions of color: hue, value, chroma. And LRV which is luminance.

Every color, including whites and grays, belongs to a hue family. Hue family is derived directly from a color's spectral data. Think of spectral data like it's color DNA. You get spectral data by measuring a color with an instrument like a spectrophotometer or a colorimeter. The science of color measurement is called colorimetry.

One of the things the instruments capture is wavelength. The dominant wavelength determines a color's hue family. That's where hue family comes from and you can measure the color with three different instruments and get the same hue family answer every time - colorimetry is objective, consistent, and repeatable.

I show you have to find out the hue family for any paint color you want in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08N9Q2tv4A

Also, here's a recent thread on the other forum about undertones.

Lori, thank you for the video link and the website for Easy RGB. The site does give a more complete breakdown of a color. However, running the two colors Gray Owl and Revere Pewter through that website gave me the same results that I got with my RGB program. A tone is a gray version of a hue and as I stated originally both of these colors have a yellow hue.

Ahh, but are they really the same results? :)

How did you originally derive that Revere Pewter and Gray Owl had yellow undertones? And while it is true that both colors belong to the yellow hue family why do they look so different from each other?

Reviving this thread to add we also have Calacatta Gold wall tile, but with Crema Marfil floors. Will likely go with BM Sonnet or Hush. We have Lenox Tan in the hall and adjoining family room. White door, sink, toilet. Anyone have a suggestion otherwise they feel strongly about? TIA. -DC