I'm having a hard time figuring out what color this actually is. Is it brown, gray, green? I'm having a hard time figuring out the undertones in it.

Undertone is not an actual color attribute. Undertones are purely subjective opinion - ask three different people about the undertones *in* Ethereal Mood and you'll likely get three different answers - green, gray, brown, for example. Very different from hue family.

Every color belongs to a hue family. Context and quality of light will define what it looks like. This is Ethereal Mood's spectral data (color DNA) as defined by measurements using a qualify of light that is similar to indirect daylight around noon.

If it appears as anything other than "just a warm near neutral brownish gray", then that tells you a lot about the quality of light you have to work with. It's almost to the middle of the yellow hue family, so it could easily, logically have green overtones because GY green-yellow is the next hue family 'over' going clockwise.

As far as value and light reflectance value, it's a snidge darker than a typical midtone. LRV is a percentage that tells you how much light a color will reflect and conversely absorb. Ethereal Mood will reflect 38% and absorb 62%. A midtone is defined as reflecting 50% and absorbing 50%.

Chroma - it has a fair amount of chromaticity at 1.25. Chroma is a ratio - proportions of color to proportions of gray. Chroma answers questions about colorfulness and grayness. How far away from a true neutral gray is a color? How colorful does a color look compared to a true neutral gray.

Ethereal Mood is a brown gray more than it is a gray brown. Depending on context and the light, it will look like a warm brown-gray or a warm green-gray.

Lori,

Thank you for this. It is very helpful. I have now been able to see my sample of this color in direct sunlight and cloudy conditions. Its amazing how different colors look in different light.

Ethereal Mood is the color sample in the middle in this photo: taken on a sunny day at 11:00 (East side of the house)

Overcast: Ethereal Mood is on the color sample on the right

Nice roof and love the details. You could probably go darker than Ethereal Mood if you wanted. I assume you've checked all the color specs for the products being used and they can be painted colors with LRVs under 55.

umm.... no I didn't even know there were color specs for products. I just checked out your website. I'll send you an email through that. Thanks!

Will Ethereal mood paint be okay if used with a black roof and bronze palisade face?