Silver Satin
OC-26 · Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Silver Satin
OC-26
Subtle yellow-leaning green, a green color
- Color family
- White
- Sold for
- Interior and exterior
Benjamin Moore Silver Satin OC-26 is an off-white with a faint gray-green cast, the cooler cousin of the warm off-whites in the same collection. Its LRV of 75 keeps it well up in off-white territory, light enough to brighten a room while still showing as a color against a bright white trim. It is used as a whole-house wall color, and often on ceilings and trim in houses painted mostly in one white.
Is Silver Satin warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers
leans yellow-green
Undertone
Subtle yellow-leaning green
A gentle lean, quiet on the wall.
Silver Satin is one of the quietest colors in the Off White collection: a little yellow, a little green and nothing else worth naming. The green is what separates it from the warm off-whites around it, and it only becomes visible by comparison. Against a warm cream the walls look cool and slightly gray. Against a crisp blue-white they look soft and faintly warm. Warm wood floors bring out what yellow there is; cool marble and gray-washed oak bring out the green. Because so little pigment is involved, the swings are small and the color rarely surprises anyone.
Silver Satin in north, south, east and west light
In a north-facing room the green in Silver Satin comes forward and the walls read as a cool, soft gray rather than a white, so it is a safer choice there than a warm off-white that would go dull. Wood and warm bulbs keep it from feeling clinical. South light warms it and by afternoon it can look like a plain soft white. East rooms show it at its cleanest in the morning; west light in the last hour adds a faint olive edge on the wall the sun reaches. Bulbs at 2700K to 3000K hold it steady.
Watch for
- Reads as a light gray, not a white, in a north room with no warm floor
- Goes almost pure white on a bright south wall in the middle of the day
- Looks green next to a cream or antique white on the same wall plane
Best rooms and surfaces for Silver Satin
Silver Satin is a whole-house color for people who want walls that are lighter than a greige and less bright than a white. It carries a hallway, a stairwell and a living room in one can, and the same paint on the ceiling in flat keeps the shell simple. Bathrooms suit it because it stays light under downlights and its green trace sits well with gray-veined stone and honed marble. Bedrooms take it easily under any bedding. Where it falls flat is a room with cream trim and cream cabinets, where the wall goes gray and the woodwork looks yellow by comparison.
Silver Satin on an exterior
Benjamin Moore lists Silver Satin for exterior use, though outside it goes very light. Full sun reads it as a soft white and the gray-green only appears on shaded elevations and under eaves, so a house painted in it looks white from the street and gray up close. It works well as trim against a mid-tone or dark siding, where its softness avoids the hard edge a bright white gives, and as a body color on a house with strong dark shutters.
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Silver Satin vs Classic Gray, White Dove, Cloud Cover and Gray Owl
Classic GraySilver SatinSilver Satin vs Classic Gray OC-23
Silver Satin is a touch lighter; undertone subtle yellow-leaning green vs subtle yellow-beige.
Classic Gray OC-23 is the color people weigh this one against, and the two sit a single point apart in reflectance, so brightness is not the question. Direction is. Classic Gray leans yellow and Silver Satin leans green, which shows immediately beside an oak floor: one warms up, the other stays cool. Rooms with brass, cream and warm wood want Classic Gray. Rooms with gray stone, black metal or white oak want Silver Satin.
White DoveSilver SatinSilver Satin vs White Dove OC-17
Silver Satin is noticeably darker; both have a subtle yellow-leaning green undertone.
White Dove OC-17 is the better-known of the pair and eight points lighter, a soft white where this is an off-white with visible color. Painted together, White Dove reads as the white and Silver Satin reads as the wall. That makes them a common pairing rather than a choice: White Dove on the trim and cabinetry, Silver Satin on the walls, with enough separation to see the difference and not enough to feel like contrast.
Cloud CoverSilver SatinSilver Satin vs Cloud Cover OC-25
Silver Satin is noticeably darker; both have a subtle yellow-leaning green undertone.
Cloud Cover OC-25 is the same idea five points lighter, with the same faint green and the same lack of warmth. The practical question is how close to white you want to get. Cloud Cover crosses into near-white territory and stops reading as a color in a bright room; Silver Satin holds its tone in the same light. For a dark room Cloud Cover is the safer pick, and for a room with big windows this one keeps more character.
Gray OwlSilver SatinSilver Satin vs Gray Owl OC-52
Silver Satin is much lighter; both have a subtle yellow-leaning green undertone.
Gray Owl OC-52 is ten points darker and carries clearly more green, so it reads as a sage-gray while this one stays an off-white. They come from the same family and are often used in the same house, one on the walls of a main room and the other on the walls upstairs. If a sample of Gray Owl came back greener than expected, Silver Satin is the way to keep that direction at a fraction of the strength.
Questions about Silver Satin
Does Silver Satin look gray or white?
Both, and the trim decides which. Beside a bright white trim it reads as a soft gray; beside a cream or an antique white it reads as a white. Its measurement holds so little pigment that the neighbors carry the argument. In a room with plenty of daylight it will look white to most people, and in a north room it will look gray to nearly everyone.
Is Silver Satin the same color as 856?
Yes. Benjamin Moore carries the color under the Off White code OC-26 and under the number 856, and both mix the same paint. The two codes appear in different fan decks, which is why store systems sometimes show one and a designer's schedule the other. Quote either at the counter and you will get the same can.
Is Silver Satin good in a bathroom?
It is one of the more reliable off-whites for a bathroom, because it holds up under cool downlights instead of going yellow the way a warm white does. It sits comfortably with gray-veined marble, honed stone and chrome. The one thing to check is the tile: against a warm travertine or a beige floor the walls will look green rather than soft.
What colors go with Silver Satin?
Benjamin Moore's own scheme runs it with White Dove OC-17 as the brighter white, then Nightingale AF-670 and Stormy Monday 2112-50 as mid grays and Graphite 1603 for depth. In a room it takes white oak, gray stone, black metal and muted greens without any adjustment. Warm creams and yellowed antique whites are the pairings to avoid on the same plane.
Is Silver Satin a good trim and ceiling color?
Yes, and using it for all three surfaces is one of its common jobs. On a ceiling in flat it keeps the shell quiet without the glare a bright white gives, and on trim in satin it reads a shade crisper than the walls simply through the sheen. If the walls are a mid-tone color, choose a brighter white for the trim instead, since this one will look slightly dirty against a saturated wall.
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