Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair CSP-400

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What are Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair undertones?
Is Rocking Chair CSP-400 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Rocking Chair
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Rocking Chair CSP-400
Color codes
Color equivalents

Official page:	Rocking Chair CSP-400
Code:	CSP-400
Name:	Rocking Chair
Brand:	Benjamin Moore

What color is Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair?

Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair CSP-400 is a light, softened neutral with a warm beige cast and a gentle gray undertone. Its low-saturation character keeps it from looking overly creamy, giving walls a quiet, lightly weathered appearance. Rocking Chair is well suited to living rooms, bedrooms, and hallways where a pale neutral is wanted without the starkness of white. Pair it with natural oak, linen upholstery, matte black hardware, or muted charcoal accents for contrast. On cabinetry or trim, this shade can create a subtle tonal layer against warmer white walls.

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What are Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair undertones?

Rocking Chair is a light, very muted sandy beige. The HEX sample has a subtle yellow-orange bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear yellow-orange. Warm bulbs can make it look creamier or more golden, while cool daylight may mute that warmth and pull it closer to beige or greige.

HEX value:

#D5CBBE

RGB code:

213, 203, 190

Is Benjamin Moore Rocking Chair cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 34°, this Grey reads warm on the HSL color wheel.

CSP-400 Rocking Chair HSL code: 34, 21%, 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 Rocking Chair

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 Rocking Chair:

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

CSP-400
Rocking Chair

Darker shades

CSP-400
Rocking Chair

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 Rocking Chair with a orange hue, complementary colors are those with a blue hue close to 214, such as Benjamin Moore Nocturnal Gray and Blue Spruce.

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LRV of Rocking Chair

Rocking Chair has an LRV of 59.88% 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 59.88%, 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

We have collected almost every possible color code you could ever need.
Not sure what the difference between HEX and RGB is? We break down color models in plain language. Understanding color models

Format	Code
HEX	#D5CBBE
RGB Decimal	213, 203, 190
RGB Percent	83.53%, 79.61%, 74.51%
HSV	Hue: 34° Saturation: 10.8% Value: 83.53%
HSL	hsl(34, 21, 79)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 4.69 Yellow: 10.8 Key: 16.47
YIQ	Y: 204.508 I: 10.136 Q: -1.93
XYZ	X: 58.089 Y: 60.576 Z: 57.334
CIE Lab	L:82.151 a:1.253 b:7.722
CIE Luv	L:82.151 u:6.63 v:11.138
Decimal	14011326
Hunter Lab	77.831, -2.98, 10.806