Cinnamon Slate

2113-40 · Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore

Cinnamon Slate

2113-40

Hex code

#897475

Light reflectance value (LRV)

19.7Dark, a statement on four walls

0 black100 white

Undertone

Noticeable red, a warm color

Color family: Purple
Sold for: Interior and exterior

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Benjamin Moore Cinnamon Slate 2113-40 is a muted plum-brown, and it was the brand's Color of the Year for 2025. Its LRV of 20 puts it in the dark band, deep enough to change how a room feels rather than sit behind the furniture. Our method reads it as a noticeable red, warm rather than cool, which is why it ends up closer to a dusty mauve than to the slate half of its name.

Is Cinnamon Slate warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers

leans red

Undertone

Noticeable red

graysaturated

A visible lean you see in daylight.

Measured, Cinnamon Slate is a red with a good deal of gray laid over it and only a hint of the blue that would earn it the word slate. On a wall that comes out as mauve in some light and as a warm brown in others, and the swing is wider than the small amount of pigment would suggest. Beside cream and oak it reads brown; beside white trim and cool tile it reads purple. Mink Violet 1252 is the same idea taken deeper and more clearly violet, and Quietly Violet CSP-415 is a step lighter with the same lean.

Cinnamon Slate in north, south, east and west light

North light is what turns the cinnamon into slate: the warmth drains, the gray takes over and the walls read a step darker than the number suggests, though the red in it stops the room going cold the way a gray would. South rooms bring the brown forward and it looks warmest there, especially through the afternoon. East light gives a soft mauve at breakfast and a grayer version by evening. A west room can tip toward dusty pink in the last hour of sun. Bulbs at 2700K to 3000K keep it true, and 4000K drains the color out of it altogether.

Watch for

Reads mauve in a north bedroom and brown in a south one, from the same can
Late west sun tips it toward a dusty pink for an hour before dark
Beside cool gray tile the purple side takes over completely

Best rooms and surfaces for Cinnamon Slate

Cinnamon Slate defines a room rather than sitting behind it. It suits a dining room, a study or a living room with warm wood and enough lamps, and it is a good color for cabinets and joinery, where the depth reads as furniture instead of as a dark room. It is one of the few dark colors that does not look pasted on as a single wall behind a bed or a fireplace. It is too heavy for a hallway with no window, and it goes muddy on a ceiling above pale walls, where the brown and the purple cancel each other out.

Cinnamon Slate on an exterior

Benjamin Moore sells Cinnamon Slate for exterior use, and it is an unusual but useful siding color for a house with brick or a stone base. In full sun it lifts and the brown side takes over, so the sunny elevation can read almost as a taupe while the shaded one stays plum. On a front door it keeps the mauve better, since a door is usually recessed and shaded. Cream trim keeps the whole thing warm; a cold white trim makes the purple obvious from the street.

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Cinnamon Slate vs Urbane Bronze, Evergreen Fog and Iron Ore

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Urbane Bronze SW 7048, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Cinnamon Slate vs Urbane Bronze SW 7048

Cinnamon Slate is much lighter; undertone noticeable red vs subtle yellow-brown.

Urbane Bronze SW 7048 is the other warm dark people shortlist next to Cinnamon Slate, twelve points deeper at 8 and brown-gray with no red in it. Urbane Bronze reads as a heavy neutral and stays put in every light; Cinnamon Slate keeps moving between mauve and brown as the day goes on. Choose Urbane Bronze if that movement would bother you, and Cinnamon Slate if it is the reason you like the color.

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Evergreen Fog SW 9130, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Cinnamon Slate vs Evergreen Fog SW 9130

Cinnamon Slate is much darker; undertone noticeable red vs subtle yellow-leaning green.

Evergreen Fog SW 9130 is ten points lighter at 30 and a muted green, so it is the softer option for someone who wants a colored room without the depth. Cinnamon Slate is the warmer and the heavier of the two, and it gives a small room far more enclosure. They also work together, Evergreen Fog on the walls with Cinnamon Slate on the joinery, since neither is loud enough to overpower the other.

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Iron Ore SW 7069, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Cinnamon Slate vs Iron Ore SW 7069

Cinnamon Slate is much lighter; undertone noticeable red vs none (a true neutral).

Iron Ore SW 7069 is a near-black true neutral, fourteen points darker at 6, and it is what people fall back on when a dark color feels like a risk. It gives weight without any hue at all. Cinnamon Slate does the same job while keeping a warm cast, which is what makes a room feel lived in rather than severe.

Questions about Cinnamon Slate

Was Cinnamon Slate a Benjamin Moore Color of the Year?

Yes, for 2025. That is why it turns up in so many palettes from that year and why paint stores keep it on hand. It says nothing about how the color will land in your room, and at this depth two sample boards in different corners are worth the trouble.

Does Cinnamon Slate look purple or brown?

Both, in the same room. The measurement is a warm red under a lot of gray, so warm afternoon light brings the brown out and cool north light hands the wall to the purple. Cream and oak nearby push it brown, and white trim with gray tile pushes it purple.

Is Cinnamon Slate a good bedroom color?

It is the room people paint it most. At this depth it makes a bedroom feel enclosed and warm rather than cold, and the mauve side is flattering under lamplight. Give it a room with some daylight and warm bedding; in a small north bedroom with one window it can read heavy and gray.

Is Cinnamon Slate too dark for a bathroom?

Not for a powder room, where the depth is the point and the light is usually artificial anyway. In a full bathroom with cool white tile the purple side comes forward and can look chalky against the glaze. Warm stone, wood and brass keep it on the brown side of itself.

What colors go with Cinnamon Slate?

Benjamin Moore pairs it with Cloud Cover OC-25 and Calm OC-22 as soft whites, Porcelain 2113-60 as the light companion from its own strip and Chambourd AF-645 as the deeper accent. In materials it takes brass, walnut, terracotta and unbleached linen, and it turns cold against chrome and blue-gray stone.

What is the Sherwin-Williams version of Cinnamon Slate?

Socialite SW 6025 is the match by measurement, so alike on a chip that few people could name which can a painted wall came from. Soulmate SW 6270 is the next nearest and runs a little more purple. Neither has a page here yet, so sample both against the Benjamin Moore chip before a store matches the formula.

Get a sample before you paint

Use the visualizer to narrow your shortlist, then confirm the finalist on your actual wall. A peel-and-stick sample of Cinnamon Slate, checked in morning and evening light, is the last step before a gallon.