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Winter Color Palette — Winter Frost

A cool, quiet five-color winter scheme pairing frost blue and silver grey with deep pine and crisp snow white — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Emily Roberts · DIY Editor & First-Timer's Guide

Winter has a quiet kind of beauty, and this palette tries to bottle it. A pale Frost Blue leads the way, the color of a clear sky just after a fresh snow, with a soft Silver Grey beside it for that hushed, frosted-window feeling.

Snow White is the base that keeps everything bright and clean, so the cooler tones never tip into gloomy. Then a little nature creeps in: Evergreen Sage is the muted green of a snow-dusted pine, and Deep Pine is the deep, almost-black version of it for contrast.

For a fresh 2026 take, let Frost Blue and Snow White do most of the work, and use Deep Pine in small, confident touches. The result feels serene and current, like a winter morning that is cold outside but completely calm inside.

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Frost Blue
Dominant
PPG / Glidden Bit Of Heaven · PPG1156-2
#C9D7DE
LRV 66
Silver Grey
Secondary
Dunn-Edwards Crestline · DE6325
#B4BCBF
LRV 46
Snow White
Base
Benjamin Moore Distant Gray · 2124-70
#F2F4F1
LRV 90
Evergreen Sage
Support
Benjamin Moore Garden Oasis · 699
#7D8D81
LRV 25
Deep Pine
Accent
Sherwin-Williams Rookwood Shutter Green · SW 2809
#303B39
LRV 4

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Tap a swatch for its full guide or + to save it — take any SKU to the store, they mix on demand.

Frost Blue
#C7D6DD · LRV 65 · Dominant
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6512 · ΔE 1.75
Behr · MQ3-53 · ΔE 0.54
Benjamin Moore · 1661 · ΔE 2.08
Valspar · 8004-39B · ΔE 1.75
PPG / Glidden · PPG1156-2 · ΔE 0.48
Glidden · PPG1156-2 · ΔE 0.86
Dutch Boy · 336-2DB · ΔE 1.75
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2397 · ΔE 1.89
Dunn-Edwards · DE5799 · ΔE 0.9
Magnolia Home · JG-74 · ΔE 5.61
Farrow & Ball · NO. 317 · ΔE 1.58
Diamond Vogel · 0629 · ΔE 1.76
Hirshfield's · 0629 · ΔE 1.91
Rodda · R091 · ΔE 3.73
C2 Paint · C2-787 · ΔE 2.74
Clare · PNT100-LT-36 · ΔE 4.3
Portola Paints · SAN FERNANDO · ΔE 9.89
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 19.52
Backdrop · BD-RR · ΔE 13.13
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 16.92
Kompozit · 0629 · ΔE 1.91
Silver Grey
#B4BBBE · LRV 49 · Secondary
Sherwin-Williams · SW 2832 · ΔE 1.7
Behr · PPU18-05 · ΔE 1.41
Benjamin Moore · 1592 · ΔE 1.09
Valspar · 4006-1B · ΔE 1.1
PPG / Glidden · PPG10-14 · ΔE 2.18
Glidden · 30BG 49/047 · ΔE 1.67
Dutch Boy · 438-3DB · ΔE 4.19
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1454 · ΔE 2.28
Dunn-Edwards · DE6325 · ΔE 0.5
Magnolia Home · JG-123 · ΔE 4.03
Farrow & Ball · NO. 27 · ΔE 3.17
Diamond Vogel · 0518 · ΔE 3.45
Hirshfield's · 0525 · ΔE 1.83
Rodda · CA188 · ΔE 2.15
C2 Paint · C2-990 · ΔE 3.57
Clare · PNT100-MD-73 · ΔE 5.05
Portola Paints · COSTA · ΔE 5.57
Annie Sloan · CHICAGO GREY · ΔE 3.54
Backdrop · BD-UD · ΔE 4.43
Rust-Oleum · 285143 · ΔE 2.5
Kompozit · 0525 · ΔE 1.83
Snow White
#F3F4F2 · LRV 90 · Base
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9541 · ΔE 1.99
Behr · BL-W09 · ΔE 1.44
Benjamin Moore · 2124-70 · ΔE 0.79
Valspar · 8007-2B · ΔE 1.23
PPG / Glidden · PPG1001-1 · ΔE 1.21
Glidden · PPG1001-1 · ΔE 1.11
Dutch Boy · 002W · ΔE 1.94
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 4001 · ΔE 2.01
Dunn-Edwards · DEW385 · ΔE 1.07
Magnolia Home · JG-21 · ΔE 1.54
Farrow & Ball · NO. 2005 · ΔE 1.1
Diamond Vogel · 0411 · ΔE 2.85
Hirshfield's · 0411 · ΔE 2.88
Rodda · R007 · ΔE 1
C2 Paint · C2-516 · ΔE 1.32
Clare · PNT100-LT-04 · ΔE 2.85
Portola Paints · ONE DROP · ΔE 3.35
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 15.83
Backdrop · BD-TR · ΔE 4.16
Rust-Oleum · 285140 · ΔE 2.25
Kompozit · 0411 · ΔE 2.88
Evergreen Sage
#7E8C82 · LRV 25 · Support
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6214 · ΔE 2.03
Behr · N400-5 · ΔE 3.44
Benjamin Moore · 699 · ΔE 1.22
Valspar · 5002-2A · ΔE 3.13
PPG / Glidden · PPG10-06 · ΔE 4.22
Glidden · PPG10-06 · ΔE 3.58
Dutch Boy · 427-5DB · ΔE 2.03
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3293 · ΔE 2.03
Dunn-Edwards · DE6292 · ΔE 2.74
Magnolia Home · JG-60 · ΔE 4.82
Farrow & Ball · NO. 79 · ΔE 3.23
Diamond Vogel · 0582 · ΔE 5.77
Hirshfield's · 0442 · ΔE 2.11
Rodda · CA173 · ΔE 5.18
C2 Paint · C2-681 · ΔE 2.87
Clare · PNT100-DP-52 · ΔE 10.84
Portola Paints · VOODOO · ΔE 15.91
Annie Sloan · COCO · ΔE 14.53
Backdrop · BD-HF · ΔE 3.61
Rust-Oleum · 285141 · ΔE 4.79
Kompozit · 0442 · ΔE 2.11
Deep Pine
#2C3B34 · LRV 4 · Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 2809 · ΔE 3.68
Behr · S-H-780 · ΔE 4.3
Benjamin Moore · CW-510 · ΔE 5.27
Valspar · 6011-5 · ΔE 3.91
PPG / Glidden · PPG0995-7 · ΔE 9.09
Glidden · 00NN 05/000 · ΔE 10.68
Dutch Boy · 424-7DB · ΔE 4.06
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 3291 · ΔE 4.06
Dunn-Edwards · DEA002 · ΔE 10.32
Magnolia Home · JG-05 · ΔE 11.29
Farrow & Ball · NO. G18 · ΔE 9.59
Diamond Vogel · H101 · ΔE 9.47
Hirshfield's · H0101 · ΔE 9.96
Rodda · CA210 · ΔE 13.27
C2 Paint · C2-981 · ΔE 9.55
Clare · PNT100-DP-54 · ΔE 10.66
Portola Paints · GHOST TREE · ΔE 9.51
Annie Sloan · AUBUSSON BLUE · ΔE 9.62
Backdrop · BD-AH · ΔE 6.14
Rust-Oleum · 285144 · ΔE 8.8
Kompozit · 0529 · ΔE 8.99

Questions

Will frost blue feel too cold to live with?

It can if it stands alone, so this scheme softens it. Snow White warms up the light and Evergreen Sage adds a touch of green, so Frost Blue reads calm and airy rather than icy. If you still want more warmth, swap in a creamier white as your base.

How do I keep the greys and blues from looking flat together?

Lean on Deep Pine for contrast. A small dose of that dark green on a door, a shelf, or trim gives your eye somewhere to land, so the soft Frost Blue and Silver Grey feel intentional instead of washed out.

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