Amazing Gray vs Worldly Gray: Depth, Materials and the Better Fit

Amazing Gray and Worldly Gray: the documented difference

Amazing Gray has an LRV of 47; Sherwin-Williams Worldly Gray SW-7043 is 57. The difference is 10 points, with Worldly Gray returning more light under the reference measurement. Choose by the material relationship as well as the number. Amazing Gray's green undertone is a meaningful distinction within the warm-gray range, not a detail to dismiss because the name says gray. Worldly Gray is a warm gray with a light-to-medium reflectance value.

The choice beside beige limestone and dark wood

Beige limestone and dark wood can support a grounded palette, provided the green note improves their relationship instead of competing with the stone.

Set up both candidates with beige limestone and dark wood. Use equal-sized boards with the intended finishes and place them in the same orientation. Do not put one directly beside a window and leave the other in shadow. A difference that follows the position rather than the board is a lighting observation, not evidence that the formula changed.

What the comparison can—and cannot—settle

For a second point of reference, Fawn Brindle is recorded at LRV 36.

Choose the green influence because it helps the stone, not because the gray name sounds safely neutral. Assess Amazing Gray and Worldly Gray alone as well as side by side. The unchosen board will not remain in the finished room, and a preference created only by that neighbor may not survive its removal. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.