Start with the documented color character
Urbane Bronze is a dark brownish gray. Temperature is a useful description, but neighboring materials can change the impression. Urbane Bronze offers brownish-gray depth where a stark black is not the desired relationship to stone.
A metallic bronze sample changes with reflection; the paint can complement it without needing to reproduce the metal's highlights.
Use Black Fox as a control
Temperature is easier to assess when Urbane Bronze has enough light to show its hue. Check a lit panel beside the actual metal or wood, then inspect the shaded section. A very dark surface may function mainly as an outline even when its published color description has a distinct temperature.
Urbane Bronze has an LRV of 8; Sherwin-Williams Black Fox SW-7020 is 7. The difference is 1 points, with Urbane Bronze returning more light under the reference measurement. Black Fox is a very dark color with warm greige undertones. This supplies a named color control; the LRV gap alone does not identify the warmer, greener or pinker paint.
The condition for keeping Urbane Bronze
Compare actual metal finishes in shade; a painted brown-gray should complement the hardware rather than imitate its reflectivity.
Judge the temperature description against the full limestone cladding and bronze hardware arrangement. A warm or cool label is a useful starting category; it cannot guarantee that Urbane Bronze agrees with every material assigned the same label. The wood-floor pairing guide covers that related choice. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.
Sources & notes
Color specifications: Sherwin-Williams Urbane Bronze SW-7048. The recorded LRV is 8. Named comparison values come from the respective manufacturers; material schemes are editorial suggestions.
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