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Sherwin-Williams paint colors

Sherwin-Williams runs one of the most-spec'd color libraries in North America, and its quiet greiges and warm whites — Agreeable Gray, Alabaster, Repose Gray — anchor more repaint projects than almost any other deck.

1947 of the most-spec'd colors from Sherwin-Williams's ColorSnap, grouped into 13 families with hex, SKU, and LRV for every color — and cross-matched to the other US brands.

White
121 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
300 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
439 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
37 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
108 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
115 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
83 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
182 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…
Purple
55 colors
Purple is the most under-used wall color in American interiors — and that's exactly why it lands when it does. The family splits cleanly: pa…
Blue
92 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…
Teal
139 colors
Teal is the in-between blue-green that reads moody, marine, or jewel-tone depending on which side of the family you pick. Benjamin Moore nam…
Green
126 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
150 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…

About Sherwin-Williams paint colors

Sherwin-Williams colors lean dependable rather than flashy: soft, low-chroma neutrals built to read clean under both daylight and warm bulbs, plus a deep bench of saturated accents for doors, cabinets, and feature walls. The brand's reputation among professional painters comes from consistency — a color mixed today looks like the same color mixed next year, which matters when you are matching a wall you painted two seasons ago.

What makes the deck easy to work with is how predictable the undertones are. The famous grays read genuinely neutral instead of sliding blue or purple, the whites stay warm without going cream, and the saturated tones hold their depth in low light. That reliability is why color consultants so often build a whole-home palette out of three or four Sherwin-Williams colors and trust it across every room.

Choosing a Sherwin-Williams Color

Start with the family that matches the mood you want, then sort by LRV — Sherwin-Williams publishes a light-reflectance value for every chip, so you can move from the lightest color in a family to the darkest and judge how much light a room will keep before you buy. A north-facing room usually wants a higher-LRV pick to stay bright; a sunny south room can carry a deeper, moodier shade without feeling closed in.

Where to Buy Sherwin-Williams Paint

Every Sherwin-Williams color is mixed to order at a Sherwin-Williams store or paint counter, so what you browse here is a real, buyable product — there is no minimum and no special order. Grab a sample pint first and live with it on the actual wall for a day or two before you commit to gallons; a chip on a screen never tells the whole story under your own lighting.

Matching Sherwin-Williams Across Brands

You are never locked into one brand. Click any swatch to see its closest match across the other US paint lines, so a Sherwin-Williams favorite can be tinted at Benjamin Moore, Behr, Valspar, or the featured Kompozit deck if that is where you prefer to shop. The match is computed from the actual hex values, so you can compare the alternatives side by side before deciding where to buy.

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