Wrought Iron
2124-10 · Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore
Wrought Iron
2124-10
No distinct lean, no distinct lean in this calculation
- Color family
- Neutral
- Sold for
- Interior and exterior
Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron 2124-10 is a near-black with no color in it, the last and darkest step on its own gray strip. Its LRV of 8 means the wall gives back almost nothing, so the paint reads as a solid shape rather than as a shade. Our calculation groups its low-chroma swatch as neutral, without ruling out a visible cast in a room. It is used on interior doors, window sash, cabinets and trim more often than on four walls.
Source: Benjamin Moore's color data. Undertone labels describe our calculation, not the paint formula or a test in your room. How we assess colors.
Is Wrought Iron warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers
too close to gray to lean
Undertone
No distinct lean
A true neutral, no lean at all.
Wrought Iron sits close to the gray axis in our digital-swatch calculation. It is one of the few paints that is genuinely neutral rather than a black with a story attached, and that makes it the color that borrows from whatever is around it. Beside oak flooring it looks faintly warm, beside gray-veined marble faintly cool, and on its own it looks like a soft black. Its nearest relatives do have leans, which is how you spot the difference: Cheating Heart 1617 is a shade lighter and tips slightly blue, Midnight Oil 1631 sits a hair deeper, Graphite 1603 deeper again.
Wrought Iron in different lighting
A color with nothing in it has little to shift, so this is one of the easier darks to place. A north room takes it a little cooler and deeper than the chip and stops there, which makes it a safer choice for that exposure than any navy or brown-black. South light lifts it a fraction and it stays neutral. Across an east or west room it barely moves through the day, a touch cool in the morning and a touch warm at sunset. The bulb decides the rest: 2700K warms it, 4000K cools it, 3000K leaves it alone.
Watch for
- Shows dust, fingerprints and roller lap marks more than anything else in the room
- Borrows warmth from whatever sits next to it, so sample it against the actual floor
- Under 4000K downlights it can turn into a cold gray-black instead of a soft one
Best rooms and surfaces for Wrought Iron
Wrought Iron is at its best on the things in a room rather than on the room itself: interior doors, window sash, a stair rail, a fireplace surround, or base cabinets under a light counter. On all four walls it is a decision, and it suits a den, a media room or a powder room where the point is to feel enclosed. In a bedroom it usually lands better on the trim or a single wall than everywhere. A vanity in satin wipes clean easily. Because there is no undertone to clash with anything, it can be dropped into a room whose tile, stone and floor were chosen years ago.
Wrought Iron on an exterior
Benjamin Moore sells Wrought Iron for exterior use, where it is mostly a trim, sash, shutter and front door color rather than a body color. Full sun shows it as a soft black instead of a true one, and a shaded elevation closes it up to black. A door painted in it stays even through the day because the sun has no undertone to pull out. It is the usual pick when a house needs black window frames without the glare of a jet black.
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Wrought Iron vs Iron Ore, Iron Mountain, Kendall Charcoal and Cyberspace
Iron OreWrought IronWrought Iron vs Iron Ore SW 7069
Wrought Iron is a touch lighter; both fall in our no distinct lean category. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Iron Ore SW 7069 is another near-black to sample: both fall in our low-chroma neutral category, but that does not make their painted finishes identical. What differs is depth: Iron Ore sits about three points darker at an LRV of 6, so it lands as a firmer black on cabinets and on siding. Wrought Iron keeps a little more light in it and lets panel profiles and door edges still show. Take Iron Ore for the heavier black, Wrought Iron where the shape of the door should stay visible.
Iron MountainWrought IronWrought Iron vs Iron Mountain 2134-30
Wrought Iron is a touch darker; undertone no distinct lean vs faint orange. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Iron Mountain 2134-30 is the lighter and warmer of Benjamin Moore's own darks. It measures a faint orange at an LRV of 11, roughly three points up, and that small amount of warmth becomes obvious once the two sit side by side: Iron Mountain reads as a very dark warm gray, Wrought Iron as black. Iron Mountain is the answer when the wall should still be understood as gray.
Kendall CharcoalWrought IronWrought Iron vs Kendall Charcoal HC-166
Wrought Iron is noticeably darker; undertone no distinct lean vs faint yellow-brown. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Kendall Charcoal HC-166 is a real dark gray rather than a near-black, about seven points lighter at an LRV of 15 with a faint yellow-brown running through it. That gap changes what a room does with corners: Kendall Charcoal keeps its shadows and its depth, Wrought Iron flattens them into one plane. Cabinet fronts are where the two get cross-shopped, and the deciding factor is whether the kitchen has the daylight to carry the darker one.
CyberspaceWrought IronWrought Iron vs Cyberspace SW 7076
Wrought Iron is a touch lighter; undertone no distinct lean vs faint blue. Based on published LRV and our swatch classification.
Cyberspace SW 7076 is the near-black with a blue in it, faint but plain enough against a white ceiling. Wrought Iron has nothing there to find. Depth is not the question, since Cyberspace measures an LRV of 6 and the two are within a few points. If the room's other finishes are cool, Cyberspace joins in with them. If they are mixed, Wrought Iron stays out of the argument.
Questions about Wrought Iron
Is Wrought Iron actually black?
It is not a black, but it behaves like one. The swatch calculation puts it at a near-neutral reflecting about eight percent of the light in the room, which is dark enough that most people call it black on sight. Set against a real black such as Tricorn Black SW 6258 it is visibly softer, and that softness is why it ends up on doors and cabinets.
What colors go with Wrought Iron?
Benjamin Moore's picks beside it are White Ice OC-58, Satin Shoes 2159-70, Wedgewood Gray HC-146 and Jack O'Lantern 2156-30: a cool white, a cream, a soft blue and an orange. A neutral this flat will take any of them. Most rooms in practice stop at one white and one wood tone, and the hardware is free, since brass, nickel and matte black all sit on it.
Is Wrought Iron a good color for interior doors?
Yes, and doors are one of its more common uses. Near-black doors against white walls give a room its structure without introducing a color, which is exactly what a paint with no undertone is for. Use a satin or semi-gloss enamel so the face wipes clean, and accept that brush and roller marks show more here than on a pale door.
What is one shade lighter than Wrought Iron?
Trout Gray 2124-20 is the step up on its own strip, roughly eight points lighter and a clear dark gray rather than a near-black. Cheating Heart 1617 is the far smaller step, close enough that the change is barely worth the paint. The strip stops at Wrought Iron, so anything deeper comes from outside it, and Midnight Oil 1631 or Graphite 1603 go there.
Is there a Sherwin-Williams equivalent to Wrought Iron?
Nothing carries the name, and the two nearest colors in other brands are at Farrow & Ball: Off-Black No. 57 and Liquorice No. CB10 are both hard to tell apart from it. At Sherwin-Williams the closest are Cyberspace SW 7076 and Iron Ore SW 7069, near relatives rather than matches. For an exact copy, a Sherwin-Williams store can match the Benjamin Moore formula.
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Trim, ceiling and coordinating colors for Wrought Iron
Benjamin Moore's own picks beside Wrought Iron include White Ice OC-58 and Satin Shoes 2159-70, the light end of the contrast. In practice the trim white run with it is Chantilly Lace OC-65 for the sharpest separation, White Dove OC-17 for a softer line, or Decorator's White OC-149 in a room that already has cool gray in it. The other common arrangement reverses them: white walls with Wrought Iron on the trim and doors.
Colors lighter than Wrought Iron
Colors similar to Wrought Iron
Closest matches for Wrought Iron in other brands
These are the closest digital colors in our catalog, not equivalent paint formulas or touch-up substitutes. Compare physical samples in the same finish before choosing. See the comparison method.