The Benjamin Moore Color System is a comprehensive offering of seven color-filled, versatile, and easy-to-navigate palettes designed to help guide professionals and consumers alike in color selection and specification.
Our customers have come to know Benjamin Moore as the color leader, offering a range of palettes to suit all of their color selection needs. Featuring time-honored classic hues and the latest directional colors, the Benjamin Moore Color System gives you a rich and diverse taste of color culture in both a traditional sense of color as well as taking you into the future with the newest addition to the system, the Affinity™ Color Collection.
The palettes and collections within the Benjamin Moore Color System include:
Classic Colors - Surround yourself with your color favorites. This classic collection of timeless, elegant hues guarantees beautiful, usable color all the time, every time.
A pleasing and harmonious range of colors that has been deemed as “Classic,” that is, they have recognized value, serving as a standard of excellence as a whole. A collection of 1,680 inspired classics that consumers and professionals have enjoyed for years, the colors in this palette are as timeless as they are forward. Subtle gradations of color allow for sophisticated tones and rich hues to intermix together, guaranteeing beautiful color combinations and formulating a timeless, Classic Color Collection.
Color Preview® - A collection of bold, saturated colors that brings spaces to life for those looking to illuminate their world with pure, extraordinary color.
A great complement to Classic Colors, Color Preview offers a collection of 1,240 hues that excite and inspire with pure, deep, clear colors that create striking combinations.
Historical Colors - Steeped in tradition, the refined, elegant hues of the Historical Collection deliver timeless color that can be used in traditional as well as contemporary spaces.
A collection of 174 time-honored colors comprises our most popular palette: The Historical Colors. Inspired by the documented colors found in 18th- and 19th-century architecture, these classic, inviting tones continue to serve us well today.
America’s Colors - A concise collection of soft neutrals features a snapshot in color of America’s most popular, well-traveled regions.
Geographically inspired with tones that are subtle and welcoming, America’s Colors' palette of 42 soft colors delivers a collection ranging from the pale gray tones of our beautiful coastlines to the rich, clay earthtones of the Southwest desert .
Off-White Colors - Inherently sophisticated and endlessly versatile, the Off-White collection offers subtle nuances of whites that suit tranquil, serene environments as well as creates color-enhancing accents for dynamic spaces.
The Off-White Colors offer the beauty of the many variations of white. A collection of 140 soft hues features a wide range of white and off-white colors. The whites are tinted in hues that complement the many beautiful color options found in other color palettes within the Benjamin Moore Color System.
Designer Classics (available only in Canada) - Comfortable colors that can be chosen with confidence.
The Designer Classics palette features 231 tried-and-true colors - timeless beauty you can integrate into a variety of design styles and decors. A perennial favorite of both discerning consumers and professional designers alike, Designer Classics are colors you can choose with confidence to enhance the mood and atmosphere of any living space.
Affinity Color Collection - A forward, sophisticated palette of harmonious hues designed to express your color vision with confidence.
Our most recent introduction of 144 sophisticated colors was designed expressly to be used with Aura® paint. Each color is beautiful on its own or in combination with any other Affinity color.
Directional Colors - Color collections that are updated annually for the discerning color enthusiasts who embrace new color concepts into their homes and lives.
Pottery Barn Colors - Relaxed style meets the comfort of color as Pottery Barn chooses their favorite Benjamin Moore colors, allowing for decorating and color selection with ease.
The Forgotten Fifth Wall
When it comes to choosing a paint color for your room, start at the top - ceilings need color, too! Learn how color on the ceiling can transform a room.
There’s no better time to freshen up the look of your home than now. You can bring the sense of renewal inherent to the season into your own environment with beautiful color. Where to start? Look forward to the season by looking up.
Ceilings are often the Forgotten Fifth Wall in a room. Too often, little thought is given to a ceiling’s contribution to the overall room design, which is typically just coated in some ubiquitous white paint.
Look at your ceilings from a new perspective. Color, sheen, pattern, and texture on the ceiling can transform the entire look and feel of a room.
Warm it Up
On the flip side, a large room with high ceilings can feel impersonal or unbalanced sometimes, with furnishings, floor coverings and accessories visually occupying the bottom half of a room, leaving the top bare. Experiment with a deeper color on the ceiling in this case. A rich cocoa, in a soft sheen such as eggshell or pearl immediately cozies up and balances a large open space with style.