Illustrative render of a room with both walls painted Chicago, afternoon light Illustrative render

Afternoon · Clear, near-neutral daylight.

Chicago 10.4% light on screen

Illustrative render, not a measurement or a Visera capture: the sample room and its four lighting conditions are AI-edited images of one fixed room. The swatch is an on-screen approximation — confirm against a physical sample.

Chicago

Dulux

Hex
#5F5A54
Undertone
Warm — a soft yellow lean
Light reflected
10.4% (on screen)
Colour family
Greys

Very low reflectance. Dramatic, and it will make a room read smaller and softer-edged.

Try it on your wall Where to buy Chicago

Visera is free on the App Store. In the app, set a custom colour to #5F5A54 to try it on your wall. Live wall painting needs iOS 26 and an iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro model with LiDAR.

SamplesPeel-and-stick sample squares are in development. Until then, try colours free in the Visera app and pick up a real sample pot from a retailer.

Goes with

Three colours from this library with enough separation to read as a deliberate second colour — a soft partner for an adjoining wall, a stronger one for trim or joinery, and a high-contrast accent — picked to share this colour’s lean where they have one. Computed from on-screen values: a starting point, not a rule.

Close to this

Ranked by CIEDE2000 perceptual difference. Anything under ΔE 2 is very hard to tell apart on a wall — worth knowing before you buy two sample pots of effectively the same colour.