Dried Thyme Undertones: What to Compare Beside Your Finishes

Start with the documented color character

Dried Thyme is an organic green with a blue note; Sherwin-Williams specifically suggests cabinetry. A physical comparison is needed to decide how that character works with your own finishes. Dried Thyme's green with a blue note supports a muted cabinet direction, backed by the manufacturer's own cabinetry suggestion.

Why the butcher block and aged brass relationship matters

Butcher block is both a broad warm surface and a horizontal light reflector, making the board below its edge especially informative.

Dried Thyme has an LRV of 21; Sherwin-Williams Evergreen Fog SW-9130 is 30. The difference is 9 points, with Evergreen Fog returning more light under the reference measurement. Evergreen Fog mixes green and gray with a small blue influence in the manufacturer's description. This supplies a named color control; the LRV gap alone does not identify the warmer, greener or pinker paint.

Use Evergreen Fog as a control

Give Dried Thyme enough illuminated area to reveal its color, then move the same board into the normal shadow. Compare it briefly with Evergreen Fog. Decide whether the hue is important everywhere or whether a near-black impression is acceptable in the darker parts of the planned surface.

Separate a persistent cast from a comparison effect

Compare a vertical cabinet board under the counter overhang before extending the color to every cabinet. The warm-versus-cool comparison covers that related choice.

If the unwanted cast remains beside a permanent finish under normal light, that is a practical reason to replace Dried Thyme. If it appears only beside an unused sample, remove the comparison and assess the intended palette alone. Before ordering samples, compare room-planning features in the paint color visualizer roundup.