A cold gray color with a tendency towards blue, made mainly of carbon black and white pigment. Common as a carpenter’s color, especially in the 19th century, then usually broken with white. Carbon black gray can sometimes be found in 100%, for example as a sill paint, but it is otherwise mostly used as a break color and is rarely painted unbroken.

Sample jars are available with pre-broken percentages 0.5%, 2%, 7%, 15%, 30%

ATTENTION! The color reproduction on the screen does not correspond 100% to reality.

A light warm grayish color. White broken with 7% Green Umbra.

Nearest NCS S 1502-Y

100% it is dark gray-brown, broken with white it is warm gray. It is available in the following percentages: 2%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%.

When you want to paint knots and linings on wooden houses from the 18th to the 20th century, it is good to know that there was a different amount of refraction of the white color in different eras.

The most common was 30% green umber in the 18th century, giving a distinct limestone gray hue. During the 19th century, the fashion lightens and the “white” color often ended up around 15% green umber.

By the turn of the century, however, only light, soft white is the highest fashion, corresponding to 2% green umber.

Since the same colors and the same paint qualities were also painted indoors with roughly the same timetable, our ready-made paints are suitable for both indoors and outdoors. Indoors, this linseed oil paint was used on windows, carpentry, breast panels, doors and more.

ATTENTION! The color reproduction on the screen does not correspond 100% to reality.

Broken warm white. White off-white with 2% Green Umbra.

Nearest NCS S 1002-Y

100% it is dark gray-brown, broken with white it is warm gray. It is available in the following percentages: 2%, 7%, 15%, 30%, 60%.

When you want to paint knots and linings on wooden houses from the 18th to the 20th century, it is good to know that there was a different amount of refraction of the white color in different eras.

The most common was 30% green umber in the 18th century, giving a distinct limestone gray hue. During the 19th century, the fashion lightens and the “white” color often ended up around 15% green umber.

By the turn of the century, however, only light, soft white is the highest fashion, corresponding to 2% green umber.

Since the same colors and the same paint qualities were also painted indoors with roughly the same timetable, our ready-made paints are suitable for both indoors and outdoors. Indoors, this linseed oil paint was used on windows, carpentry, breast panels, doors and more.

ATTENTION! The color reproduction on the screen does not correspond 100% to reality.