Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster / Powell Smokehouse / 2109-40

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Smoked Oyster for living room (2 photos)
What are Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster undertones?
Is Smoked Oyster 2109-40 cool or warm?
How light temperature affects on Smoked Oyster
Monochromatic color scheme
Complementary color scheme
Color comparison and matching
LRV of Smoked Oyster 2109-40
Color codes
Color equivalents

Official page:	Smoked Oyster 2109-40
Code:	2109-40
Name:	Smoked Oyster
Brand:	Benjamin Moore

What color is Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster?

Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster 2109-40 is a muted medium-depth gray with a noticeable warm, brownish cast. Its softened red-beige influence keeps it from reading cold or blue, giving walls a grounded, lightly weathered look. In bright daylight, Smoked Oyster can appear like a pale taupe-gray, while lower or warmer artificial light brings out its deeper, earthier side. It suits living rooms, bedrooms, and dining spaces where a neutral needs more presence than a pale gray. Pair it with creamy off-whites, charcoal accents, natural oak, aged brass, and linen or leather textures.

Smoked Oyster for living room (2 photos)

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What are Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster undertones?

Smoked Oyster is a midtone, very muted muted taupe. The HEX sample has a subtle red bias, but its low chroma turns that hue into a neutral-looking color rather than a clear red. 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:

#8E7F79

RGB code:

142, 127, 121

Is Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster cool or warm?

warm

cool

With a hue of 17°, this brown leans warm, but it is close to neutral and can read cooler in some light.

2109-40 Smoked Oyster HSL code: 17, 9%, 52%

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 Smoked Oyster

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 brown shade looks under different lighting:

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Coordinating colors.
Colors that go with Benjamin Moore Smoked Oyster:

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

2109-40
Smoked Oyster

CSP-380
Studio Clay

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 Smoked Oyster with a red hue, complementary colors are those with a green hue close to 197, such as Benjamin Moore Aegean Teal and Blue Lace.

2109-40
Smoked Oyster

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LRV of Smoked Oyster

Smoked Oyster has an LRV of 22.98% and refers to Medium colors that reflect a lot of 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 22.98%, 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	#8E7F79
RGB Decimal	142, 127, 121
RGB Percent	55.69%, 49.80%, 47.45%
HSV	Hue: 17° Saturation: 14.79% Value: 55.69%
HSL	hsl(17, 9, 52)
CMYK	Cyan: 0.0 Magenta: 10.56 Yellow: 14.79 Key: 44.31
YIQ	Y: 130.801 I: 10.867 Q: 1.306
XYZ	X: 22.195 Y: 22.31 Z: 21.221
CIE Lab	L:54.355 a:4.648 b:5.344
CIE Luv	L:54.355 u:9.388 v:6.472
Decimal	9338745
Hunter Lab	47.234, 1.218, 6.426