BACKDROP · COLOR DECK
Backdrop paint colors by family
30 of the most-spec'd colors from Backdrop's Backdrop DTC, grouped into 11 families. Each family page lists every color in the bucket with hex, SKU, and LRV — and cross-matches the iconic picks to the other US brands.
White
3 colors
White is the hardest color to specify well. The right white shifts under daylight, north-facing rooms, and warm-LED bulbs — and most "whites…
Gray
4 colors
Gray is the most-recommended neutral in American interiors — the safe choice that anchors a room without committing to a strong color. The "…
Neutral
4 colors
Neutrals are the colors that aren't quite gray and aren't quite tan — the warm, low-saturation in-between bucket where greige, taupe, mushro…
Black
3 colors
True black on a wall almost always looks heavier than you expected. The picks below — the "designer blacks" — sit just shy of pure black, wi…
Yellow
1 colors
Yellow is the highest-risk wall color in residential interiors — it can read cheerful and sun-warmed in the right room, or oppressive and da…
Orange
1 colors
Orange is back — not the saturated 1970s shag-carpet orange, but warm earth tones (terracotta, rust, sienna), soft peach and apricot, and th…
Red
3 colors
Red is divisive as a wall color, which is exactly why it works so well in the right room — a dining room, a powder room, or a single accent …
Pink
2 colors
Pink stopped being a kids-room-only color around 2018, when "millennial pink" started showing up on dining-room walls and powder-room cabine…
Blue
4 colors
Blue is the most popular color for accent walls, kitchen islands, and front doors — and also the family with the widest spread, from pale do…
Green
2 colors
Green has quietly replaced grey as the safe-but-interesting wall color of the late 2020s. Sage Green, the soft grey-green that became the de…
Brown
3 colors
Brown is in. Pantone naming Mocha Mousse the 2025 Color of the Year confirmed what designers had been spec'ing for two years already — a ret…
TOOLS