Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach 1597

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Pebble Beach for living room (4 photos)
What are Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach undertones?
Is Pebble Beach 1597 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Pebble Beach
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Pebble Beach 1597
Color codes
Color equivalents

Official page:	Pebble Beach 1597
Code:	1597
Name:	Pebble Beach
Brand:	Benjamin Moore

What color is Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach?

Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach 1597 is a light, softly muted gray with a faint cool cast drawn from its blue-green balance. Its low saturation keeps it from reading icy, giving walls a clean, quiet look without appearing stark white. In bright daylight, this shade can look pale and silvery, while lower or warmer artificial light may bring out its gentle neutral-gray side. It suits bedrooms, bathrooms, and open living areas where a subtle backdrop is wanted, and it can also give cabinetry a light, understated finish. Pair Pebble Beach with crisp white trim, charcoal details, pale wood, brushed nickel, or deeper blue-gray accents for contrast.

Pebble Beach for living room (4 photos)

Check out this stunning light color used in real living rooms. Explore how this grey shade can create a unique space

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What are Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach undertones?

Pebble Beach is a light, near-neutral gray with low saturation and a soft, slightly cool cast in the supplied digital sample. The sample’s faint teal-leaning direction is too subtle to support a firm undertone call on its own. Benjamin Moore describes Pebble Beach as having a soft blue undertone, which fits its overall light gray family by giving it a cooler-looking edge rather than making it read as distinctly blue. Warm artificial light may soften that cool impression, while cool daylight can make the gray’s blue-leaning character more noticeable.

Manufacturer information used in this description: official color page.

HEX value:

#C8CDCD

RGB code:

200, 205, 205

Is Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 180°, this Grey leans cool, but it is near the neutral line and may feel warmer in certain lighting.

1597 Pebble Beach HSL code: 180, 5%, 79%

Hue - degree on a color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.
Saturation is expressed as a percentage. At 0%, it appears as a shade of grey, and at 100%, it is in full color.
Lightness is also a percentage value. 0% is black, and 100% is white.

How light temperature affects Pebble Beach

Natural Lighting. During the day, natural light shifts from about 2000 K at sunrise/sunset to 5500–6500 K at noon.

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In addition, natural-light temperature depends on its direction:

Direction of sunlight	Visible temp.	Hue	Duration
North	Cool	Bluish	All day
East	Warm	Yellow	Before noon
West	Warm	Orange-red	After noon
South	Warm	Orange-yellow	All day

Artificial Lighting. When choosing bulbs, pay attention to their color temperature in Kelvins.
Use the slider to see how this Grey shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Benjamin Moore Pebble Beach:

Monochromatic color scheme

This scheme consists of various shades, tints, and tones of a single color. While it offers a perfect combination of hues, without accent décor it may become monotonous.

Lighter shades

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Darker shades

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Complementary color scheme

This color scheme is a combination of two shades that are opposite each other on the color wheel. The high contrast between these colors creates a vibrant and dynamic visual effect. For the color Pebble Beach with a green hue, complementary colors are those with a red hue close to 0, such as Benjamin Moore Quietly Violet and Desert Shadows.

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LRV of Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach has an LRV of 60.09% and refers to Light colors that reflect most of the incident light. Why LRV is important?

Light Reflectance Value scale illustration

Light Reflectance Value measures the amount of visible and usable light that reflects from a painted surface.
Simply put, the higher the LRV of a paint color, the brighter the room you will get.
The scale goes from 0% (absolute black, absorbing all light) to 100% (pure white, reflecting all light).

Act like a pro: When choosing paint with an LRV of 60.09%, pay attention to your bulbs' brightness. Light brightness is measured in lumens. The lower the paint's LRV, the higher lumen level you need. Every square foot of room needs at least 40 lumens. That means for a 200 ft² living room you'll need about 8000 lumens of light – e.g., eight 1000 lm bulbs.

Color codes

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Format	Code
HEX	#C8CDCD
RGB Decimal	200, 205, 205
RGB Percent	78.43%, 80.39%, 80.39%
HSV	Hue: 180° Saturation: 2.44% Value: 80.39%
HSL	hsl(180, 5, 79)
CMYK	Cyan: 2.44 Magenta: 0.0 Yellow: 0.0 Key: 19.61
YIQ	Y: 203.505 I: -2.98 Q: -1.058
XYZ	X: 56.667 Y: 60.35 Z: 66.404
CIE Lab	L:82.028 a:-1.709 b:-0.593
CIE Luv	L:82.028 u:-2.798 v:-0.597
Decimal	13159885
Hunter Lab	77.685, -5.742, 3.699