Benjamin Moore purple paint colors

Purple is the family people second-guess most, and Benjamin Moore's deck handles it with the same restraint that made its off-whites famous. Across these 109 colors you get soft grayed lilacs like Touch of Gray (2116-60), clean mid-tone florals like Blue Orchid (2069-50), and deep, saturated plums like Purple Lotus (2072-30). The undertones lean predictable, which matters with purple because a wrong undertone reads either pink or blue under your light.

The palest options sit so light they almost pass for off-white with a cool whisper, like Misty Lilac (2071-70). The deepest, like Fire and Ice (1392), turn rich and moody. That spread is what lets you use purple as a quiet neutral or as a real statement.

LRV (light reflectance value) tells you how much light a color bounces back, from 0 (black) to 100 (white). In this purple slice the range runs from 3.9 at the darkest to 78.7 at the lightest, so you can size the color to the job before you ever tape up a sample. High-LRV picks like Misty Lilac (2071-70) at 78.7 or Touch of Gray (2116-60) at 69 keep a room feeling open and barely-there.

The middle is where purple gets its personality. Purple Lace (2068-60) at 62 and Blue Orchid (2069-50) at 50 give you visible color without going dark, while Heather Field (CC-970) at 39.1 and Amorous (AF-600) at 27 add weight. Save the low end, Fire and Ice (1392) at 15 and Purple Lotus (2072-30) at 10, for accents and rooms you want to feel enclosed.

The pale lilacs work well in bedrooms and bathrooms where you want calm and lots of bounced light. Misty Lilac (2071-70) and Touch of Gray (2116-60) read almost neutral in daylight, so they age better than a bolder purple if you live with it for years. They also pair cleanly with white trim without fighting it.

Mid-tones like Blue Orchid (2069-50) and Heather Field (CC-970) suit a dining room, a powder room, or a feature wall where you want color to register. The deep plums, Fire and Ice (1392) and Purple Lotus (2072-30), are best in small or low-light spaces you want to feel cozy and dramatic, like a study, a powder room, or an accent wall. In a dark color, a one-coat line earns its price.

Purple plays nicely with Benjamin Moore's strong off-whites. White Dove (OC-17), Chantilly Lace (OC-65), and Simply White (OC-117) all make clean trim and ceiling partners, with White Dove the softest and Chantilly Lace the crispest. For a pale lilac wall, keep the trim a touch brighter so the wall stays the star.

If you want contrast instead of an all-purple room, a navy like Hale Navy (HC-154) or a warm greige like Revere Pewter (HC-172) grounds the deeper plums and keeps the scheme from going too sweet. About the codes you'll see: OC means Off-White, HC means Historical Collection, and AF means Affinity, a curated line built to coordinate easily, which is why Amorous (AF-600) mixes well with other AF colors.

Benjamin Moore is sold only through independent dealers, not big-box stores, and every color is mixed to order at the counter, so nothing on this page sits pre-made on a shelf. You pick the line by how hard the room works: ben runs about $56 a gallon, Regal Select about $75, and Aura, the flagship, about $95 and built to cover in one coat. For a deep purple like Purple Lotus (2072-30), Aura usually saves you a coat and the time that goes with it.

If you've fallen for a purple from another brand, any Benjamin Moore dealer can color-match it from a chip, and the reverse works too: bring a Benjamin Moore name like Blue Orchid (2069-50) to another store and they can approximate it. Matches are close but not identical because each brand's base and tints differ. The same goes for cross-matching to our featured Kompozit deck, so always confirm with a sample pot on your own wall before buying gallons.