Is Stonehenge Greige PPG1024-5 warm or cool?
Its numeric screen value is summarized as beige (yellow undertone). Surrounding flooring, daylight direction, lamps, and large fixed finishes can make the same sample read differently.
PPG color reference
Stonehenge Greige (PPG1024-5) by PPG
#A79D8D
A beige screen color with a beige (yellow undertone) reading and LRV 34.0. Not sure it's the exact color your local store carries? Here's the closest match at each of the other four brands.
- Hex
- #A79D8D
- RGB
- 167, 157, 141
- HSL
- 36.9°, 12.9%, 60.4%
- Lab D65
- 65.16, 0.87, 9.68
- LRV
- 34.0
- Undertone
- beige (yellow undertone)
In a room
Where this color can work
Stonehenge Greige is a deeper warm neutral for a den, dining space, mudroom, or cabinet scheme where pale walls would lack weight. It coordinates naturally with leather, warm stone, and medium-to-dark woods, with light trim supplying contrast. Shaded exposures can make it feel much darker. Sample it behind the largest furniture item and beside the floor, then evaluate whether those surfaces separate clearly enough under the room's lowest nighttime lighting level.
Not affiliated with any paint brand. On-screen colors are approximations computed from the brand's published values; verify with a physical swatch.
Cross-brand shortlist
Three nearby values in every other palette
Lower ΔE2000 values are closer screen approximations. They are not paint-formula conversions.
Sherwin-Williamsnearest three
Benjamin Moorenearest three
Valsparnearest three
Dunn-Edwardsnearest three
Within PPG
Similar, lighter, and darker
Grand Canyon Tan40YY 33/118 · #A69C88Similar · ΔE 1.747Gray By MePPG1008-4 · #A1988BSimilar · ΔE 1.999Heron Grey20YY 37/094 · #AEA293Similar · ΔE 2.108DiversionPPG1021-4 · #A99A89Similar · ΔE 2.472Brushwood Tan20YY 31/106 · #A39686Similar · ΔE 2.544Simmering SmokePPG1019-4 · #A99F96Lighter · ΔE 3.448Grand Canyon Tan40YY 33/118 · #A69C88Darker · ΔE 1.747
Provenance
Recorded source
- Color value source: https://www.ppgpaints.com/ppg-colors/stonehenge-greige
- Retrieved:
- LRV is recorded from the cited source.
Saveable reference
Color and closest-match card
FAQ
Questions about Stonehenge Greige
Can I use the hex #A79D8D for paint ordering?
No. Hex describes an sRGB screen color, not a paint tint formula. Use PPG1024-5 when requesting the brand color and verify a physical swatch in the intended product line.
How reliable are the matches for Stonehenge Greige?
They're consistent, repeatable rankings of the screen colors. They don't account for sheen, substrate, application thickness, metamerism, or differences between paint products. In this library, the nearest cross-brand screen value is Downtown CSP-165 by Benjamin Moore at ΔE 1.386.
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