Farrow & Ball · No. 289 · Greys
Farrow & Ball
Inchyra Blue
Benjamin Moore
Knoxville Gray
Lower score means closer. Under 2 is hard to tell apart on the wall; over 5 is a different colour that sits in the same family.
British paint maker, widely stocked across the UK.
UK stockists
Closest · 312
Harley Green
Nearest availablescore 6.62
This brand has nothing closer. Treat it as a starting point only.
Option 2 · 311
Goblin
Nearest availablescore 7.03
Option 3 · 227
Scree
Nearest availablescore 7.59
Sold through independent stockists in the UK and mixed to order.
UK stockists
Closest · HC-160
Knoxville Gray
Closescore 2.02
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 2135-30
Nocturnal Gray
Closescore 2.84
Option 3 · 1568
Quarry Rock
Similarscore 4.21
North American colour card.
Closest · SW 6236
Grays Harbor
Similarscore 3.84
A sensible alternative, but clearly its own colour beside the original.
Option 2 · SW 6223
Still Water
Similarscore 4.16
Option 3 · SW 7624
Slate Tile
Similarscore 4.19
North American colour card. The Valspar range sold in UK stores is different.
Closest · 5002-4C
Sequoia Glade
Closescore 3.24
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 5003-4C
Forest Nightfall
Similarscore 3.79
Option 3 · 5001-2C
Cobalt Cannon
Similarscore 4.00
North American colour card.
Closest · 1145-6
Juniper Berry
Closescore 2.38
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 1035-6
Superstition
Similarscore 3.66
Option 3 · 1038-6
Lava Gray
Similarscore 3.80
North American colour card.
Closest · BXC-63
Molten Lead
Closescore 2.13
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · 770F-5
Dark Ash
Closescore 2.58
Option 3 · 780F-6
Dark Granite
Closescore 2.83
North American colour card.
Closest · DE5775
Iron Creek
Closescore 2.87
Same family and depth. Expect a slight shift in warmth or strength.
Option 2 · DE6314
Dark Pewter
Closescore 3.46
Option 3 · DE6321
Soot
Similarscore 3.85
From the trade
Paint Inchyra Blue and your chosen match on two boards in the same finish. A flat and an eggshell in one colour never look identical.
Check them on the darkest wall in the morning and again under your own lamps at night. That is where small differences show.
Give the merchant the brand, colour name and code shown here. It avoids the guesswork of a scanned match.
In your light
Pick the way your window faces and the time of day. The same paint can look like three different colours.
North light is steady but cool and grey. It pulls blues and greys colder and makes greens look heavier. Warm based colours hold up best.
An approximation of how light colour and strength shift a paint. Use it to narrow a shortlist, then paint a sample board and look at it at these same times.
Building a scheme
Worked out from undertone and depth, the way a decorator would put a scheme together. Paint samples side by side before you commit.
A pale colour from the same undertone as Inchyra Blue, so the ceiling does not look stark white against it.
One step lighter or darker on skirtings, doors and window boards. A tonal scheme is the easiest way to make a room feel finished.
A dark colour that sits under it. Use on a fireplace wall, an inside door, a kitchen island or a hall below the dado.
Inchyra Blue is close to neutral, so almost any colour will sit beside it. These have enough character to show.
Colour values are on screen approximations taken from published community colour libraries (Farrow & Ball; Farrow & Ball (cross check); Little Greene; Benjamin Moore; Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, PPG, Behr, Dunn-Edwards), compiled 2026-10-09. Scores use CIEDE2000. Screens, light and sheen all change how paint looks, so always check a physical sample. Aethos is not connected to any of the paint makers named here and all colour names belong to their owners.