Is Rainy Afternoon Warm or Cool? Color Character in Context

Start with the documented color character

Rainy Afternoon is a deep green-gray. Temperature is a useful description, but neighboring materials can change the impression. Rainy Afternoon adds more depth than Intrigue, making evening enclosure a deliberate possibility rather than an incidental side effect.

Why the ivory upholstery and warm wood relationship matters

Ivory upholstery needs enough visible area to define the seating against dark green-gray, especially with only local lamps on.

Rainy Afternoon has an LRV of 15.2; Benjamin Moore Intrigue 1580 is 24.43. The difference is 9.23 points, with Intrigue returning more light under the reference measurement. Intrigue is a gray-green with a substantial midtone depth. This supplies a named color control; the LRV gap alone does not identify the warmer, greener or pinker paint.

Use Intrigue as a control

Temperature is easier to assess when Rainy Afternoon has enough light to show its hue. Check a lit panel beside the actual metal or wood, then inspect the shaded section. A very dark surface may function mainly as an outline even when its published color description has a distinct temperature.

Separate a persistent cast from a comparison effect

Approve it under the actual lamps and keep enough pale upholstery to separate the seating from the wall. The undertones and neighboring colors covers that related choice.

Judge the temperature description against the full ivory upholstery and warm wood arrangement. A warm or cool label is a useful starting category; it cannot guarantee that Rainy Afternoon agrees with every material assigned the same label. The wood-floor pairing guide covers that related choice. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.